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Date:      Sun, 14 Nov 1999 21:55:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include signal.h
Message-ID:  <199911150255.VAA03965@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199911121632.JAA19116@mt.sri.com>
References:  <199911121549.IAA18836@mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911130312430.18150-100000@alphplex.bde.org> <199911121632.JAA19116@mt.sri.com>

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<<On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:32:16 -0700, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> said:

> By reseting the FPU with fninit, we *lose* much of the state, we in our
> code we must restore the state (which we stored before the call to
> sigsetjmp with fsave/fwait).

Bruce already explained what was going on here.  I'd just add that,
with a real implementation of [gs]etcontext() this becomes trivial.

-GAWollman

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