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Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:59:00 -0000
From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] Support fs_base and gs_base on FreeBSD/i386.
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On 2019-02-04 14:45, John Baldwin wrote:
> I had originally just done this out of paranoia, but I checked and 
> FreeBSD's
> amd64 kernel will actually fail attempts to set the base address higher
> than 4G with EINVAL rather than silently truncating.

That's even better!