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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:00:37 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] THE LINUX/I386 BOOT PROTOCOL - Breaking the 256 limit
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Matt Domsch wrote:
> 
> No reason.  I was just trying to be careful, not leaving data in the
> upper bits of those registers going uninitialized.  If we know they're
> not being used ever, then it's not a problem.  But I don't think
> that's the source of the command line size concern, is it?
> 

No, it's treating the command line as a fixed buffer, as opposed to a 
null-terminated string.  This was always a bug, by the way.

	-hpa

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