Set up a frame pointer on interrupt entry, to improve backtraces of
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@@ -782,11 +782,7 @@ In Pintos, @func{intr_init} in @file{threads/interrupt.c} sets up the
 IDT so that each entry points to a unique entry point in
 @file{threads/intr-stubs.S} named @func{intr@var{NN}_stub}, where
 @var{NN} is the interrupt number in
-hexadecimal.@footnote{@file{threads/intr-stubs.S} is so repetitive
-that it is actually generated by a Perl script,
-@file{threads/intr-stubs.pl}.  Thus, you will actually find
-@file{threads/intr-stubs.S} in your @file{threads/build/threads}
-directory, not in plain @file{threads}.}  Because the CPU doesn't give
+hexadecimal.  Because the CPU doesn't give
 us any other way to find out the interrupt number, this entry point
 pushes the interrupt number on the stack.  Then it jumps to
 @func{intr_entry}, which pushes all the registers that the processor