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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:28:31 +0000
Subject: Re: Loadable module and kernel gp
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>>>>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:52:00 +0100, Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@hob.de> said:

  Christian> Hi, does anybody know a simple way for a loadable module
  Christian> to get the gp value of the kernel? Is there any sample
  Christian> code?

The safest way is probably to materialize a function pointer for a
function that is known to be in the kernel (and exported) and then to
read the second word.

	--david