"Ahmed S. Darwish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Andreas, > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008, Andreas Schwab wrote: >> "Ahmed S. Darwish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I don't understand how the `fn' argument reached the child thread >> > in the %ebx register. It's said in the comment that `fn' will be >> > popped to child 'in the ebx frobbing below'. But what does that mean ? >> >> See "popl %ebx" after "int $0x80". >> > > I hope I'm not misreading something obvious, but I can't find > the code where FUNC(%esp) is stored in %ebx before %ebx value > got pushed in the stack (and restored in above 'popl' statement).
It is stored in the new stack for the child, as explained in the comment. The parent has a different stack. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
