On 13/10/10 18:41, Dennis Cao wrote: > HI guys, > I am really interested in grub. So i dig into the source code a bit. I > find that the boot program is written in AT&T assembly. I am not > familiar with this language.
Neither am I - just a user. Can somebody explain what these lines > means? > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > jmp LOCAL(after_BPB) jump instruction - tells program control to jump to the address referenced by the label LOCAL > nop /* do I care about this ??? */ nop is a no operation instruction - does nothing other than take up a processor cycle. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Thanks:) > > --------------------------------- > 曹贵林 ( Dennis Cao ) > > _______________________________________________ > Help-grub mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub Beyond that I cannot help, Barry _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
