From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 19 22:42:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660D537B401; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF5B43FAF; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6K5g5v1081532; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6K5g558003118; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6K5g5JX003117; Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 22:42:05 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: deischen@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20030720054205.GC2973@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20030720014640.GA45467@kokeb.ambesa.net> <20030720053918.GB2973@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030720053918.GB2973@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib Makefile X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 05:42:06 -0000 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