From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 19 18:47:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20469 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA20455 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA10581; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:16:30 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA00750; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:16:13 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981020111612.F433@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:16:12 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jim Trek , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Assembly Language Documentation References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jim Trek on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 12:01:41PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 19 October 1998 at 12:01:41 -0400, Jim Trek wrote: > > Is any part of FreeBSD documented in assembly language? I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. Assembly language is used for programming, not documntation. If you mean "is any part of FreeBSD *written* in assembler?", the answer is yes. Take a look at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/*.s, notably /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/locore.s. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message