Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:12:53 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3 |
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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.
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