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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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