Messages in this thread | | | From | "A.N.Kuznetsov" <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.1.42 question | Date | Fri, 20 Jun 1997 23:24:23 +0400 (MSD) |
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Hello!
> > This may be "illusion", I frequently find that adding arbitrary extra > instruction or some random data can make bugs disappear. Usually it > is moving symbols in the kernel image and either: > > 1) avoiding some linker bug > 2) restoring some alignment constraint which is needed > > Your change for example may have moved __init section into place which > does not trip some bug in linker or something like this. >
Sure. But I use ONE kernel image on all my boxes: from 20MHz 386DX to 200MHz Pentium-PRO and only AMD 486 dies here and stops to die with this strange jump.
Alexey Kuznetsov
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