writejump purpose

2005-04-24 Thread Robert Lunnon
In kthread.c there is this code that is only defined for I386 glibc, but the solaris port uses Solaris libc so the function does nothing. What is the purpose of this function and exactly what should the semantics be ? BOb static inline void writejump( const char *symbol, void *dest ) { #if

Re: writejump purpose

2005-04-24 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:59:30AM +1000, Robert Lunnon wrote: In kthread.c there is this code that is only defined for I386 glibc, but the solaris port uses Solaris libc so the function does nothing. What is the purpose of this function and exactly what should the semantics be ? It is