Re: What are .s files in arch/i386/boot

James Stevenson (james@stev.org)
Sat, 7 Jun 2003 20:50:32 +0100 (BST)


On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Lars Unin wrote:

> What are .s files in arch/i386/boot, are they c sources of some sort?
> Where can I find the specifications documents they were made from?

There are not c files.
They are assembler files

Try running gcc on a c file with the -S option
it will generate the same then you can tweak the
assembler produced to make it faster.

James

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