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To: John Weber <weber@nyc.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.4 Compile Error
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From: Pascal Schmidt <pleasure.and.pain@web.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 16:50:01 +0100
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 07:50:06 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:

>  I understand the syntax, but I don't understand why one would want to 
>  return the address of something 3 longs away.  What is this function
>  supposed to be doing?

Well, from the name thread_saved_pc() it tries to get some value of PC
(the program counter ;) that's saved by that thread, right? My guess
would be that the desired value is stored on the stack at esp[3].

-- 
Ciao,
Pascal
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