From: utzoo!decvax!wivax!dyer
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: A kernel trivia question.
Article-I.D.: wivax.7107
Posted: Wed Feb 16 09:22:40 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 13:03:02 1983
References: wjh12.165

Why is icode defined in machdep.c?

	Maybe because it's easy to refer to sizeof(icode)
	for the copyout with main.  Were it in mch.s
	(and not all machines have a mch.s), main would
	not have a handle on its size.  (I agree that there
	are ways to work around this.)