Re: Understanding assembly in linux kernel

2008-01-29 Thread Chetan Nanda
Hi, Thanks for answering ... ~ nandac On Jan 29, 2008 5:06 PM, Luciano Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:42:49PM +0530, Chetan Nanda wrote: > > Hi, > > I am reading linux kernel code (i386/kernel/entry.S) it contains few > > assembly instruction like: > > > > .section

Re: Understanding assembly in linux kernel

2008-01-29 Thread Luciano Rocha
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:42:49PM +0530, Chetan Nanda wrote: > Hi, > I am reading linux kernel code (i386/kernel/entry.S) it contains few > assembly instruction like: > > .section __ex_table,"a" > .align 4 > .long 1b,syscall_fault > .previous > .section .fixup,"ax" > .section .rodata,

Understanding assembly in linux kernel

2008-01-29 Thread Chetan Nanda
Hi, I am reading linux kernel code (i386/kernel/entry.S) it contains few assembly instruction like: .section __ex_table,"a" .align 4 .long 1b,syscall_fault .previous .section .fixup,"ax" .section .rodata,"a" .pushsection .popsection etc How to understand these assembly statem