Re: KSTK_EIP and KSTK_ESP

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Mon, 11 Feb 2002 01:20:30 -0500 (EST)


Balbir Singh writes:

> Do we really need these defines, I found that it
> is not used anywhere and defined as deadbeef on
> some architectures. Does it make sense to remove
> these variables from the kernel source?

You should implement these. The names may be x86-specific,
but the purpose is not.

EIP -- user instruction pointer or (eeew!) program counter
ESP -- user stack pointer, as defined by your ABI
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