Re: 2.2.18Pre Lan Performance Rocks!

Alan Cox
2000-10-31T23:02:22Z

> One more optimization it has. NetWare never "calls" functions in the
> kernel. There's a template of register assignments in between kernel
> modules that's very strict (esi contains a WTD head, edi has the target
> thread, etc.) and all function calls are jumps in a linear space.

What if I jump to an invalid address - does it crash ?