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Date:      Thu, 3 Oct 2002 21:29:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reason: releng4 comp. hack, machdep.c 1.539 (was: cvsupd death (signal 6))
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210032121360.13322-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200210040417.g944HRw5002072@vashon.polstra.com>

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On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, John Polstra wrote:

> In article <Pine.GSO.4.10.10210031633520.9710-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>,
> Daniel Eischen  <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> wrote:
> > Can you try the patch at:
> >=20
> >   http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/sys.diffs
> >=20
> > I haven't had a chance to compile or test it, but it should
> > be easy enough to fix if it doesn't (compile).
> >=20
> > I'm still not exactly sure why this causes problems for the
> > modula 3 run-time.  I think Bruce may be right in that the
> > modula 3 libraries/run-time need to be rebuilt with the
> > larger ucontext.
>=20
> Rebuilding the Modula-3 libraries wouldn't help, because they are
> written in Modula-3 and don't include C header files.  It would
> require actual changes to the Modula-3 sources to deal with this.
>=20
> The changes to ucontext have broken the ability to run old binaries,
> which historically has been considered unacceptable in the FreeBSD
> project.

the old behaviour is being restored.. fear not.=20


>=20
> John
> --=20
>   John Polstra
>   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington =
USA
>   "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Ch=F6gyam Tr=
ungpa
>=20
>=20
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