linux-kernel - Re: Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading by Gujin 1/3

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Message-ID: <45CA0895.8040201@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:12:53 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@...oo.fr>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, vgoyal@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re : [PATCH] Compressed ia32 ELF file generation for loading
 by Gujin 1/3

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.

	-hpa
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