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steveklabnik on Jan 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Robigalia: seL4 and Rust

You need about 100 lines of assembly to get to a Rust kmain in long mode.

Rust has effectively no runtime these days. Same amount as C or C++, basically.

nickpsecurity on Jan 7, 2016 [–]

That's great to hear. Thanks for chiming in with the good info as always.

steveklabnik on Jan 7, 2016 | [–]

Any time. If you're interested in what exactly that code is, check out Phil's blog, linked upthread.

nickpsecurity on Jan 7, 2016 | | [–]

I'm guessing you mean this:

http://os.phil-opp.com/entering-longmode.html

Interesting stuff and seems like a good description of the code. Bookmarking it in case I do more in this area.

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