Hello,
Gaurav Dhiman wrote:
__read_lock_failed: lock ; incl (%eax) 1: cmpl $1,(%eax) js 1b
lock ; decl (%eax) js __read_lock_failed ret
What you're missing is that (%eax) is not the _contents_ of the eax register, but what is in memory at the address stored in eax.
%eax => contents of eax (%eax) => contents of memory at address contained in %eax
Sincerly,
Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx
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