From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Apr 21 21:37:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0055B37B95F for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:37:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sprice@hiwaay.net) Received: from localhost (sprice@localhost) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e3M4brN03505 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:37:53 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:37:53 -0500 (CDT) From: Steve Price To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: porting Java to the alpha In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, I wrote: # 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 ^^^^^^^^ I meant to say FPU registers here. The FPU mask is already handled correctly on the i386 as it is saved in the sigjmp_buf but all of you knew that already. :-) -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message