cvs commit: src/lib Makefile

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, 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.

I should have made the same limitation on the alpha which
has the first 6 args in registers and the remaining on
the stack.  The implementation was a bit harder because
of that.

-- 
Dan Eischen