Why set ORIG_EAX(%esp) to -1 in arch/i386/kernel/entry.S:error_code?

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

There doesn't seem much point; nothing seems to use it on the 
trap-handling paths.  Is it a historical left-over?

   J

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