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| author | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2000-11-23 02:00:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2000-11-23 02:00:47 +0000 |
| commit | 06615f62b17d7de6e12d2f5ec6b88cf30af08413 (patch) | |
| tree | 8766f208847d4876a6db619aebbf54d53b76eb44 /Documentation/exception.txt | |
| parent | fa9bdb574f4febb751848a685d9a9017e04e1d53 (diff) | |
Merge with Linux 2.4.0-test10.
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diff --git a/Documentation/exception.txt b/Documentation/exception.txt index 6adc97ba1..f1d436993 100644 --- a/Documentation/exception.txt +++ b/Documentation/exception.txt @@ -284,3 +284,9 @@ get_user macro actually returns a value: 0, if the user access was successful, -EFAULT on failure. Our original code did not test this return value, however the inline assembly code in get_user tries to return -EFAULT. GCC selected EAX to return this value. + +NOTE: +Due to the way that the exception table is built and needs to be ordered, +only use exceptions for code in the .text section. Any other section +will cause the exception table to not be sorted correctly, and the +exceptions will fail. |