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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:31:12PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:38:30PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > > I've got some preliminary patches to add alpha support to libpthread:
> > > 
> > > I'll boot-up my alpha and play with it a bit...
> 
> Ok, things compile and the patches look reasonable. In signalcontext()
> we probably want to remove the sp -= 16 statement. On ia64 this is
> required because each function has 16 bytes of scratch space on the
> stack (per the runtime specification). We don't need it on alpha.

OK.

> Other than that I suggest we commit it, hook-up libkse to the build
> and cross bridges when we come to them (ie we tweak and/or fix when
> we can actually test the code). Thoughts?

Sure, I'll try to commit it tomorrow.  Feel free to beat
me to it if you want.

There were a few places in enter_uts.S and context.S where
I used ldil and ldl instructions.  Those should be ldiq and
ldq's, right?

-- 
Dan Eischen