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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 19:36:57 -0800
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: User-space context switch and floating-point
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On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:36:28PM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote:
> > Yes, but I thought the i386 FP calling convention was that all
> >FP registers were volatile across calls, so all were preserved
> >by the callee.
> 
>  Oops, I meant 'caller'...

Yes. You need to save the FP registers on PPC that are callee
saved.

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