From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262163AbTELPAZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2003 11:00:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262170AbTELPAZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2003 11:00:25 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.102]:14825 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262163AbTELPAY (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2003 11:00:24 -0400 Message-ID: <3EBFB988.5090907@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 08:11:04 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Lee Irwin III CC: "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel , lse-tech Subject: Re: 2.5.69-mjb1 References: <9380000.1052624649@[10.10.2.4]> <20030512132939.GF19053@holomorphy.com> <21850000.1052743254@[10.10.2.4]> <20030512150309.GG19053@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 05:40:55AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >>Can I get some sort of vague explanation please? ;-) > > How obvious does it have to be? More obvious than that :) > Those are trying to fish out the 2nd and 5th words from the top of the > stack. Magic numbers stopped working; symbolic constants save the day. I guess I'm not understanding _why_ they're guaranteed to be there. -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com