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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:18:32 -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:
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> If I understand you correctly, no. We have the boundary at EIP.

Yes.

> Decoding what's before is max 7-8 tries by a human and one can figure
> out the real code from the context (with high probability).

The point being "with high probability".

I'm not adding uncertain instruction decoding to the kernel.

			Linus