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Date:      Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:53:21 +0530
From:      "Jayachandran C." <c.jayachandran@gmail.com>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mips@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Merging 64 bit changes to -HEAD - part 3
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On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:10 AM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> The changes to asm.h change the ABI for all ABIs, no? =A0Does that
> matter? =A0The jumpbuf is a user-visible thing... =A0I'm guessing that we
> can say it is OK, but it sure would be nice if we could MFC this
> change before 8.1-RELEASE (but given the locked-down nature of the
> tree, I'm not hopeful).

Currently, it should not disturb the o32 ABI, since it is inside an ifdef.
In n32/n64 the jmpbuf entries are 64bit and we will use one more
register for GP.

Slightly off-topic,  _JBLEN is 95 for mips, I cannot see a reason for
this value, any hints?

> The other changes I think are good...

JC.



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