.previous in asm

[Neo Jia]

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
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[Lee David]

On 4/30/07, Neo Jia <neo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> Is there anybody can show me the usage of ".previous" besides the
> document from AS website?

ULK 3rd edition, "10.4.5. Generating the Exception Tables and the Fixup Code"

The .previous directive forces the assembler to insert the code that
follows into
the section that was active when the last .section directive was encountered.

HTH,

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Thanks,
Li Qun