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In-reply-to: <199605111045.UAA23181@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Sat, 11 May 1996 20:45:46 +1000)
Subject: Re: some more on fast bcopy
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
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 * No, you lose control of the FPU when you go to sleep.  Something may
 * clobber the registers or turn off the TS bit.  The latter caused the
 * panic.

I see....

 * >Um, I assume you are talking about /sys/i386/i386/swtch.s, can you
 * 
 * No, this is in the copy routine.

Copy routine?  You mean copyin/copyout?  (Sorry, I'm quite clueless.)

 * gcc is good for translating C to asm :-).  My pseudocode should almost
 * compile to inline code if the macros in npx.c are used.

Uhh. ;)

Satoshi