Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> And now you understand why I am surveying these things and want to get
> the 32bit entry point well documented. So the situation doesn't get worse.
>
> Frankly while I consider what we are doing pretty sane I have always
> considered
> the 32bit entry point at least partly experimental. But we have enough users
> of it now and enough reasons to have users of it, that it looks like we need
> to
> do things a little more methodically.
>
Indeed. I think, yes, what has been there up to now has pretty much
been at least in part experimental, and I fear there will be unavoidable
breakage as part of sanitizing it. C'est la vie, I guess.
>>> And 4K seems to be our maximum size for backwards compatibility. Although
>>> we use it in a fairly sparse way, so we should be ok.
>> Sort of. It's pretty full.
>
> True. For small little extensions we have room. For big things probably
> not.
For big extensions we'll probably have to go the pointer route already
done with the command line.
-hpa
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