Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:42:05 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: deischen@FreeBSD.org Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib Makefile Message-ID: <20030720054205.GC2973@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20030720053918.GB2973@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030720014640.GA45467@kokeb.ambesa.net> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10307200101200.8320-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <20030720053918.GB2973@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
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On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 10:39:18PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:06:59AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > Here's a test program: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/ucontext/test_context.c > > Excellent. Comes in handy for me as well. > > BTW: The 3rd makecontext() fails on ia64 because only 8 arguments > are allowed. This is a technical limitation (the first 8 arguments > are passed in registers, the remaining on the stack) -- it makes > the implementation simpler. Linux has the same limitation. Doh... the first argument is actually the argument count (=8). Forget that I said it would fail on ia64 -- it won't. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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