Re: KSTK_EIP and KSTK_ESP

From: Balbir Singh (balbir_soni@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 16:08:49 EST


My fault, I was using lxr.linux.no. I was also confused by
the way it is defined in include/asm-parisc (2.4.17)

#define KSTK_EIP(tsk) (0xdeadbeef)
#define KSTK_ESP(tsk) (0xdeadbeef)

Thanks for pointing this out,
Balbir

>From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
>To: balbir_soni@hotmail.com
>CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tigran@veritas.com
>Subject: Re: KSTK_EIP and KSTK_ESP
>Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 12:55:22 -0800 (PST)
>
> From: "Balbir Singh" <balbir_soni@hotmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 12:36:59 -0800
>
> Do we really need these defines, I found that it
> is not used anywhere and defined as deadbeef on
> some architectures. Does it make sense to remove
> these variables from the kernel source?
>
>Perhaps your copy of grep is buggy, check out
>fs/proc/array.c which does make use of those macros.
>

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