On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:53:40PM +0530, S kris wrote: > ................ > call 0f > 0: popl %eax > ................ > The call is referring to immediately next statement. Please help me in > finding out the significance of the above lines in the assembly code. Kris, I believe that code segments like this are used to implement position independant code (PIC; check out gcc's -fpic and -fPIC options). Or, at least, that is my recollection when I asked the Resident Guru what that meant. :) -- "[Attorney General] Ashcroft went to the University of Chicago Law School -- a very good law school -- but the Bill of Rights never quite reached him." -- Nat Hentoff
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