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From: "Reko Turja" <reko.turja@liukuma.net>
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Subject: Support for assembler ENTER in FreeBSD kernel
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In recent discussion in OpenWatcom lists it was noticed that at least 
certain addressing modes of assembler ENTER instruction causes a crash 
when used in Linux. GCC circumnavigates this by not emitting ENTER 
instructions in assembly code. Linus's comment on the above issue can be 
found on:

http://groups.google.co.nz/groups?selm=7i86ni%24b7n%241%40palladium.transmeta.com

What's the status of the above "feature" in FreeBSD, do we support the 
whole x86 instruction set?

-Reko