On 31-Mar-99 Philip Blundell wrote:
>>While extending our UPX executable packer to support Linux/i386
>>executables I've stumbled over what I think is a subtle bug in
>>the `asm volatile' statements.
>=20
> What do you think the problem is? As far as I can tell your patch should
> have=20
> no effect. You've just expressed the same thing slightly differently.
>=20
> Can you provide a test case and an example of it going wrong?
See the program below. Sorry for consuming bandwidth.
Markus
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