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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:07:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > I'm not adding uncertain instruction decoding to the kernel.
> 
> From some point of you I understand. But it's not uncertain. The
> correct one is 100% included.

Sorry, there is _no_ way you can do it correctly.

The preceding bytes may not even be code - they can be constant data in 
the code segment. Trying to decode them as code just generates garbage in 
those circumstances.

		Linus

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