Re: bugs in loader/i386/pc/multiboot.c

[Robert Millan]

Hi,

The problem with elf64 in our multiboot loader is that it duplicates a lot
of code from elf32 and this eventually leads to bitrot.

In fact, grub_multiboot_load_elf32 and grub_multiboot_load_elf64 are supposed
to be almost identical, and only differ in s/32/64/ references.

It'd be fairly simple to resincronize them, but I'd really like to find a
way to prevent this from happening again.

Does someone have any idea on what would be a good approach?

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Robert Millan

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