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Message-ID: <20130407153348.GA31073@openwall.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:33:48 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fix for NT format (SSE builds, 32 bit)

On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 11:25:58AM -0400, jfoug@....net wrote:
> Now looking more, I am not sure we can move this mov.  popa junks all registers.

Exactly.

> The only way we could 'do' this, is to have eax hold count (the passed in arg) prior to the pusha.
> 
> Then simply do a popa; ret;  at the end of the function.

This is surely not the only way, but yes you can do it.

Alexander

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