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On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 12:00:37PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Matt Domsch wrote: > > > >No reason. I was just trying to be careful, not leaving data in the > >upper bits of those registers going uninitialized. If we know they're > >not being used ever, then it's not a problem. But I don't think > >that's the source of the command line size concern, is it? > > > > No, it's treating the command line as a fixed buffer, as opposed to a > null-terminated string. This was always a bug, by the way. OK, I'll look at fixing that, and using %esi throughout. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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