From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 8 4:32:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B42837B447 for ; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 04:32:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [62.49.251.130] (helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-34.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 16NvQ7-00072C-0Y; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 12:31:59 +0000 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g08CUh998533; Tue, 8 Jan 2002 12:30:43 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 12:30:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Dan Eischen Cc: Subject: Re: Getcontext resolution? In-Reply-To: <3C3AE665.4D6B72A6@vigrid.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Dan Eischen wrote: > 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? That sounds about right. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message