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Date:      Sat, 30 Jan 1999 09:02:29 +0000
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, 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>
In-Reply-To: <19990130105741.X8473@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 10:57:42AM %2B1030
References:  <19990129004749.A8899@netmonger.net> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901291128380.21302-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <199901291708.MAA22267@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19990130105741.X8473@freebie.lemis.com>

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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():

<snip>

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

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