Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:00:37 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit (ping) |
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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.
-hpa
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