Alexander van Heukelum wrote:
>
> Oh! A padding hole in a struct! That could be a problem. If the freeze
> is after decompression, could you test if this makes it work again?
>
The correct fix is to apply __attribute__((packed)) to this structure.
Of course, changing the boot sector will cause different random values
to be poked into this field...
I actually caught this during my setup code rewrite, but I forgot that
in the old setup code the parameter structure overlays the boot sector
(it doesn't in my code -- it starts out with nice clean zero-filled memory.)
-hpa
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