Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [fireball] 24848: i386BootDrive and i386BootPartition are ULONGs, and before saving a byte value they must be zeroed. Thanks to Magnus for identifying the problem.

[Alex Ionescu]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Author: fireball
> Date: Mon Nov 27 00:46:45 2006
> New Revision: 24848
>
> URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=24848&view=rev
> Log:
> i386BootDrive and i386BootPartition are ULONGs, and before saving a byte value they must be zeroed.

Ever heard of movzx?
-- 
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Project Lead, TinyKRNL
Kernel-Mode Software Design Engineer, ReactOS

[Brian Palmer]

Um, these values are initialized to zero at link time. So this is just
wasted code...

-Brian

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Subject: Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [fireball] 24848: i386BootDrive and
i386BootPartition are ULONGs, and before saving a byte value they must be
zeroed. Thanks to Magnus for identifying the problem.

[e-mail] wrote:
> Author: fireball
> Date: Mon Nov 27 00:46:45 2006
> New Revision: 24848
>
> URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=24848&view=rev
> Log:
> i386BootDrive and i386BootPartition are ULONGs, and before saving a byte

value they must be zeroed.

Ever heard of movzx?
-- 
Best regards,
Alex Ionescu
Project Lead, TinyKRNL
Kernel-Mode Software Design Engineer, ReactOS
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