From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965692AbXBGRND (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:13:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965691AbXBGRND (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:13:03 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:45817 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965689AbXBGRNB (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 12:13:01 -0500 Message-ID: <45CA0895.8040201@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:12:53 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061219) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Etienne Lorrain CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , vgoyal@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3 References: <923904.35193.qm@web26909.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <923904.35193.qm@web26909.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Etienne Lorrain wrote: > I did try to remove by "sed" some structure easily converted, like: > mov 26(%ebx),%eax > by: > mov 26(%bx),%eax > for all registers esi,edi,ebx,ebp but it saved so few bytes that I did not keep it. Well, *of course*, since you still do all your pointer arithmetic in 32-bit space, plus you can't convert all 32-bit modes this way. This is a far cry from a proper port. -hpa