Re: 2.5.4 Compile Error

From: Pascal Schmidt (pleasure.and.pain@web.de)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 10:50:01 EST


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
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