Explain why we're doing this insane movl ...,%eax

diff --git a/sample/c32entry.S b/sample/c32entry.S
index f1c476c..251838d 100644 (file)
--- a/sample/c32entry.S
+++ b/sample/c32entry.S
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
                .section ".text","ax"
                .globl _start
 _start:
+               # This first instruction acts as COM32 magic number
                movl $0x21cd4cff,%eax
                leal 4(%esp),%esi
                movl $__com32,%edi