Re: Question on Stack

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On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 15:54, Ed L Cashin wrote:

> You can't safely make the assumption inside module code, right?  If
> you want the userland stack pointer, you can get that.  
> 
> You don't even know whether the userland binary was compiled from C,
> though, so you can't really make any assumptions about the address of
> the current userland stack frame.

I am just talking about the kernel.

Outside of what the architectures ABI mandates, there are no
restrictions on or assumptions about what user-space does.

	Robert Love



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