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Date:      Fri, 30 Dec 2011 08:10:08 GMT
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: amd64/163710: setjump in userboot.so causes stack corruption
Message-ID:  <201112300810.pBU8A8fo022012@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR amd64/163710; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@digitalelves.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: amd64/163710: setjump in userboot.so causes stack corruption
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:33:37 -0800

 On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Russell Cattelan
 <cattelan@digitalelves.com> wrote:
 
 >>Description:
 > For some reason the forth interpreter is built and linked as 32bit even
 > on amd64.
 
 That's the catch. We use the same 32 bit loader on i386 and amd64.
 The common loader understands both kernel formats.  This unfortunately
 has meant that the libstand and sys/boot environment has had to be 32
 bit.
 
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 Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV
 "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete
 themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell



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