linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/5] Add comments to the PDA structure to annotate offsets

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 20:43:27 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] Add comments to the PDA structure to annotate
	offsets

On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 20:41 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2006 18:03, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Subject: [patch 1/5] Add comments to the PDA structure to annotate offsets
> > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> So why exactly do you think these numbers need to be documented?
> 
> If there is a reason there should be a comment in the code.
> 
> Nobody should use fixed numbers, but always get the current ones
> from asm-offset

the 40 one is a gcc ABI one (same offset as userland); that is
documented in the later patch
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