Support for assembler ENTER in FreeBSD kernel

Reko Turja reko.turja at liukuma.net
Wed May 18 02:45:12 PDT 2005


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 



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