Very cool--I'll look at this if I ever get back to this project. (Unlikely, given the changes in my priorities since I started it.) At the time, my primary mot

Very cool--I'll look at this if I ever get back to this project. (Unlikely, given the changes in my priorities since I started it.) At the time, my primary motivation was really to learn more about x86 machine code, which explains the brute-force approach. (Hey, Linux got started because Linus wanted to learn more about x86 memory management, so it's not a completely dumb approach.)