cvs commit: src/lib Makefile

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 10:39:18PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 01:06:59AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > Here's a test program:
> > 
> >   http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/ucontext/test_context.c
> 
> Excellent. Comes in handy for me as well.
> 
> BTW: The 3rd makecontext() fails on ia64 because only 8 arguments
> are allowed. This is a technical limitation (the first 8 arguments
> are passed in registers, the remaining on the stack) -- it makes
> the implementation simpler. Linux has the same limitation.

Doh... the first argument is actually the argument count (=8).
Forget that I said it would fail on ia64 -- it won't.

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