Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:45:48 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: most complex code in BSD? Message-ID: <20010622114548.A51977@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20010622062238.A45123@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 06:22:38AM -0400 References: <20010621233210.A37804@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <xzp7ky5e4ua.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20010622062238.A45123@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 06:22:38AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: | When I took the two-day FreeBSD Internals course McKusick taught, he | brought up the context-switching code. | | The original UNIX authors were not much on comments. When they put a | comment, it was to explain something really, really, *really* difficult. | | Apparently there was a seven-word comment in the context switching | code that gave him a bit of a start: "You are not expected to | understand this." Don't know if it's still there, but it's still | probably pretty scary. Is this supposed to be in C or asm? I thought context switches were among the only asm/machine dependent code. Jonathon -- Microsoft complaining about the source license used by Linux is like the event horizon calling the kettle black. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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