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SubjectRe: What are .s files in arch/i386/boot
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James Stevenson <james@stev.org> writes:

>> > > What are .s files in arch/i386/boot, are they c sources of some sort?
>> > > Where can I find the specifications documents they were made from?
>> >
>> > There are not c files.
>> > They are assembler files
>> >
>> > Try running gcc on a c file with the -S option
>> > it will generate the same then you can tweak the
>> > assembler produced to make it faster.
>> >
>> Where can I find the .c files they were made from,
>> and the spec sheets the .c files were made from?
>
> You would have to find the original author of the person
> who tweaks the assembler in the .s file chances are the .c
> file is long gone though.

If there were ever C files to begin with. It's not unheard-of for
people to write assembler code from scratch.

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