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Re: Linux i386 clone(): %ebx 'frobbing' ?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish dot 07 at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:07:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: Linux i386 clone(): %ebx 'frobbing' ?
- References: <20080215184228.GA6687@ubuntu>
"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com> 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".
Andreas.
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