From: Jack Dennon <jdd@seasurf.net>
To: linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Local Symbol Names
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:50:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03062511461400.00228@linux24> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Law14-F6AauNjVuMhvq0002ae10@hotmail.com>
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 01:23, S kris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In some of the assembly files, it's noticed that Local Symbol Names have
> been used that in the following way,
>
> ................
> call 0f
> 0: popl %eax
> ................
> The call is referring to immediately next statement. Please help me in
> finding out the significance of the above lines in the assembly code.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kris
>
The call instruction probably was used to empty the
the Execution Unit's instruction cache; thereby
forcing it to be reloaded from memory. Or, it could
be used just to force a time delay.
jdennon@seasurf.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-25 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-25 8:23 Local Symbol Names S kris
2003-06-25 16:09 ` Slack Traq
2003-06-25 18:06 ` hpr
2003-06-25 18:50 ` Jack Dennon [this message]
2003-06-25 19:44 ` Brian Raiter
2003-06-26 0:14 ` Jack Dennon
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