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Date:      Fri, 15 Nov 1996 20:24:14 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/i386/i386 locore.s
Message-ID:  <199611150924.UAA06743@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>  Modified:    sys/i386/i386  locore.s
>  Log:
>  Change this back to movl for -current since it seems to work there.
>  Bruce says that movl is broken in -stable, which would certainly explain
>  why this didn't work there.

Actually, I said that [the particular] movl instruction [in the offending
line in locore.s] is broken in stable (it is missing a `$').  movl works
perfectly in stable, and is used about 100 million times in executables
in the FreeBSD distribution.

Bruce



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