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Date:      Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:36:27 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        dima@best.net
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, dfr@nlsystems.com, dima@best.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nevermind :-)
Message-ID:  <199809250736.RAA11797@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199809250725.AAA18028@burka.rdy.com> from Dima Ruban at "Sep 25, 98 00:25:24 am"

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Dima Ruban wrote:
> Was it a voluntary context switch, since it's pretty clear
> that an event that you were waiting for never arrived :-) Or some resource
> wasn't and isn't available. How about to push some magic button called panic?
> ;-)

Bug in brain software no doubt. Probably made worse by poor hardware.

> > I was working in a cross-compiled mode to get Modula-3 to work for
> > FreeBSD/Alpha. Since Modula-3 works on OSF/1, I built that, then
> > made mods so that it would use remote commands for the backend tools
> > (gcc, ar, ld). I was able to build the whole thing that way. Without
> > the stack walking code, though, the programs just spit an error and
> > exit.
> 
> I can see that. Well, let's ask binutils dudes then.

John Polstra tells me that the setjmp/longjump implementation should
still work. I wish my brain worked - then I might stand a chance of
remembering what the issues were. 

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137

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