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From: Jack Dennon <jdd@seasurf.net>
Subject: Re: Local Symbol Names
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:50:08 -0700
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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