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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/i386/i386 locore.s
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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