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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:39:02 +0200
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: alad@hss.hns.com
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Subject: Re: __switch_to macro
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alad@hss.hns.com wrote:
> There's one thing that confuses me: don't you get a segment_not_present
> fault?  If so, traps.c's do_segment_not_present doesn't appear to search
> the exception table, and the code in loadsegment would not work.
> 
> >>> well.. I peeked into traps.c.. I do seem a call to die_if_no_fixup
> in this function. And I think loadsegment is already making an entry in
> exception table.

Ah, you're right.  I didn't follow DO_ERROR all the way to do_trap and
hency search_exception_table.

-- Jamie
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