movl $1f

[Falk Hueffner]

sashti srinivasan <svasn_tcpip@yahoo.co.in> writes:

> A line from linux source is:
>
>    movl $1f, %1 /*Save EIP*/
>
>   May anyone explain me how this instruction saves
> EIP?  (%1 is the structure member holding eip).  My
> doubt is, what is this $1f and how it copies eip to
> %1.

It's the next label called '1' in forward direction. See your
assembler manual.

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	Falk