Re: Failed to build grub2

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 07:13:22PM +0800, Bean wrote:
> 
> It's a trick to do fast arithmetic using the 32-bit address mode, for example,
> 
> leal    10 (%ebx, %eax, 4) , %ecx
> 
> means
> 
> %ecx = %ebx + %eax * 4 + 10

Reminds me again why the i386 instruction set is such a big joke ;-)

> But some assembler might not allow to use 32-bit address in 16-bit
> mode, so you can follow the slow path, for example,

Why not force it with .code32 / .code16 ?

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