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Date:      Fri, 21 Apr 2000 22:58:08 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   porting Java to the alpha
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.21.0004212244200.28130-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>

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Hi all,

I have a wild hair to spend some time (but no promises as
to how much) porting JDK2 to the alpha.  A couple of questions
come to mind immediately after doing some work on the i386
port.

1) What are the contents of sigjmp_buf._sjb[*]?  Any pointers
   to some good Alpha assembly language docs would be great
   as I'd really like to understand the contents of
   src/lib/libc/alpha/gen/{,sig}setjmp.S.
2) Is there any state that I need to worry about maintaining
   when switching contexts that {,sig}setjmp and {,sig}longjmp
   don't already do for me?  I know the Alpha doesn't have
   FP registers, but for instance on the i386 you have to
   (re)store the FPU mask when switching contexts.  Anything like
   this on the Alpha that I should be aware of?

TIA.

-steve



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