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Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 18:49:59 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: always clear bss
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> I have this vague memory of liking 0x3c because if we do happen to use
> more room then we intended the consequences are pretty benign.
>
> But that is a pretty minor consequence.
>
That's a dangerous assumption (besides, it's likely wrong, since there
are only two unused bytes below it.)
-hpa
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