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From: Pascal Schmidt <pleasure.and.pain@web.de>
To: John Weber <weber@nyc.rr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.4 Compile Error
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:50:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16aIiP-0000FT-00@neptune.sol.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C67666B.2060507@nyc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C674CFA.2030107@nyc.rr.com> <3C6750CD.46575DAA@mandrakesoft.com>  <3C675E6B.4010605@nyc.rr.com> <1013408447.806.409.camel@phantasy> <3C67666B.2060507@nyc.rr.com>

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 07:50:06 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:

>  I understand the syntax, but I don't understand why one would want to 
>  return the address of something 3 longs away.  What is this function
>  supposed to be doing?

Well, from the name thread_saved_pc() it tries to get some value of PC
(the program counter ;) that's saved by that thread, right? My guess
would be that the desired value is stored on the stack at esp[3].

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal

      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-11 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-11  4:47 John Weber
2002-02-11  5:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-11  6:02   ` John Weber
2002-02-11  6:29     ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-11  6:33     ` David S. Miller
2002-02-11  6:48       ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-11  6:52       ` David S. Miller
2002-02-11  6:20   ` Robert Love
2002-02-11  6:36     ` John Weber
2002-02-11  6:50     ` Robert Love
2002-02-11 15:50     ` Pascal Schmidt [this message]

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