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* a question about directive .fill
@ 2006-04-27  3:26 cheng long
  2006-04-27  5:16 ` Alan Modra
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From: cheng long @ 2006-04-27  3:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: binutils

Hi, All !
What the difference between .fill 1024,4,0 and .fill 4096,1,0 ?

Why  are there the two directives in <arch/i386/kernel/head.S> file of
linux kernel 2.6.11?

414 .section ".bss.page_aligned","w"
415 ENTRY(swapper_pg_dir)
416         .fill 1024,4,0
417 ENTRY(empty_zero_page)
418         .fill 4096,1,0

Thanks!

Regards,
Cheng

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* Re: a question about directive .fill
  2006-04-27  3:26 a question about directive .fill cheng long
@ 2006-04-27  5:16 ` Alan Modra
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alan Modra @ 2006-04-27  5:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cheng long; +Cc: binutils

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:32:21AM +0800, cheng long wrote:
> What the difference between .fill 1024,4,0 and .fill 4096,1,0 ?

Read the info doc.  In practice, no difference.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

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