From: Brian Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>
To: linux-assembly@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Local Symbol Names
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:44:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16121.64387.51274.655658@eidolon.muppetlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03062511461400.00228@linux24>
> 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.
The pop %eax instruction, however, makes it clear that the purpose of
the code is to get the current PC address into eax. As hpr suggested,
almost certainly for use in writing position-independent code.
b
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-25 19:44 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
2003-06-25 19:44 ` Brian Raiter [this message]
2003-06-26 0:14 ` Jack Dennon
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