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Date:      Tue, 08 Jan 2002 07:30:29 -0500
From:      Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getcontext resolution?
Message-ID:  <3C3AE665.4D6B72A6@vigrid.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0201081211250.94490-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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Doug Rabson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Dan Eischen wrote:
> 
> > I'm incorporating Doug Rabson's comments.  makecontext will allow
> > passing pointers as arguments to the start function, and the argument
> > count will not be passed as a parameter:
> 
> I've been thinking about this and I think that possibly 'intptr_t' would
> be a better type for the arguments than 'uintptr_t' since that is a signed
> type.

OK, will change it.  This is really only applicable to alpha and
other 64-bit archs, though.  I've left i386 as int's since we know
it's always going to be 32-bits, right?

-- 
Dan Eischen

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