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To:     Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
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On 1/23/23 15:43, Ammar Faizi wrote:
> 
> Align them to spot differences:
> 
>      0x200893 = 0b1000000000100010010011
>      0x200a93 = 0b1000000000101010010011
>                               ^
> 
> Or just xor them to find the differences:
> 
>      (gdb) p/x 0x200893 ^ 0x200a93
>      $3 = 0x200
> 
> ** Checks my Intel SDM cheat sheets. **
> 
> Then, I was like "Oh, that's (1 << 9) a.k.a. IF. Of course we can't
> change rflags[IF] from userspace!!!".
> 
> In short, we can't use 0x200893 as the rflags_sentinel value because it
> clears the interrupt flag.
> 

Right, my mistake.

	-hpa