a.out magic numbers (was Referencing through a null pointer)

[John F. Haugh II]

[ speaking of the 0407 magic numbers and bootstraps at the same time ]

i don't recall this to be the case around about system iii.  i hacked on
the bootstrap for the pdp/11 (11/44) and all it did was check the inode
for execute permission, then load the sucker and move it by something
like 020 bytes. [ after relocating itself to 0160000 if i remember
correctly. ]  then, it did

	clr r0
	jmp (r0)

to start unix, if i recall correctly (i remember thinking not doing a

	clr r7

was stupid, so i am pretty sure about the transfer code.)

- john.
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