From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Dec 5 5:30:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030F414DBF for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 05:30:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA08698 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:29:16 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA02042 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:29:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from knight.cons.org (knight.cons.org [194.233.237.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F8514DBF for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 05:28:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cracauer@knight.cons.org) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by knight.cons.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA04133; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:27:28 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:27:28 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Cc: Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include signal.h Message-ID: <19991205142727.A4111@cons.org> References: <382E8A1B.B7D9B7F0@scc.nl> <19991115095729.A27507@cons.org> <382FDBE2.D075594@scc.nl> <19991115115552.A27870@cons.org> <382FF2AF.545C8C81@scc.nl> <19991204234145.A1221@cons.org> <384A3D54.3DFE76D6@scc.nl> <19991205135624.A4009@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19991205135624.A4009@cons.org>; from Martin Cracauer on Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 01:56:24PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As another datapoint in the issue, I had a look into the scheme SunOS-5.7 uses: mcontext_t includes: - a description of the CPU registers - a description of the FPU registers - no other extensions, no mechanism to turn the FPU status visibilty off. The FPU description is a union of two plain byte arrays, one for hardware FPU, one for the emulator, plus space for the Weitek chips. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message