From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 30 06:52:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA00483 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 06:52:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA00477 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 06:52:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA19909; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:02:29 GMT (envelope-from nik) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:02:29 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Greg Lehey Cc: Garrett Wollman , Brian Feldman , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You are not expected to understand this (was: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)) Message-ID: <19990130090229.A19159@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19990129004749.A8899@netmonger.net> <199901291708.MAA22267@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19990130105741.X8473@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990130105741.X8473@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:57:42AM +1030 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:57:42AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > The comment was actually ``You are not expected to understand this'', > > and it was in v7's swtch(). > > Almost. From the Sixth Edition, /usr/sys/ken/slp.c, the end of > swtch(): FWIW, there's a similar comment in sys/i386/boot/biosboot/io.c and sys/pci/ncr.c. I have memories of a particularly hairy piece of code somewhere in the time/date libraries, with the comment "You are expected not to understand this", but I can't find it now. N -- Bagel: The carbohydrate with the hole To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message