hi, Is there anybody can show me the usage of ".previous" besides the document from AS website? For the following code, #define __do_strncpy_from_user(dst,src,count,res) \ do { \ int __d0, __d1, __d2; \ might_sleep(); \ __asm__ __volatile__( \ " testl %1,%1\n" \ " jz 2f\n" \ "0: lodsb\n" \ " stosb\n" \ " testb %%al,%%al\n" \ " jz 1f\n" \ " decl %1\n" \ " jnz 0b\n" \ "1: subl %1,%0\n" \ "2:\n" \ ".section .fixup,\"ax\"\n" \ "3: movl %5,%0\n" \ " jmp 2b\n" \ ".previous\n" \ ".section __ex_table,\"a\"\n" \ " .align 4\n" \ " .long 0b,3b\n" \ ".previous" \ : "=d"(res), "=c"(count), "=&a" (__d0), "=&S" (__d1), \ "=&D" (__d2) \ : "i"(-EFAULT), "0"(count), "1"(count), "3"(src), "4"(dst) \ : "memory"); \ } while (0) Thanks, Neo -- I would remember that if researchers were not ambitious probably today we haven't the technology we are using! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ