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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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