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Date:      Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:50:48 +0600
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@cytherea.weblab.nsu.ru>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/sparc64 exception.s
Message-ID:  <20020227115048.B13866@cytherea.weblab.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <1014752631.46696.13.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk>; from paul@freebsd-services.com on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:43:51PM %2B0000
References:  <200202261709.g1QH9O452115@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020226123106.A51363@locore.ca> <1014752631.46696.13.camel@lobster.originative.co.uk>

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 07:43:51PM +0000, Paul Richards wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 17:31, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > Apparently, On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 09:09:24AM -0800,
> > 	Jake Burkholder said words to the effect of;
> > 
> > > jake        2002/02/26 09:09:24 PST
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/sparc64/sparc64  exception.s 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Apparently gcc3.1 is now using deprcated v8 instructions in v9 code
> > >   due to them being faster in certain cases.  Therefore we need to save
> > >   and restore the v8 %y register around traps in kernel mode as well as
> > >   traps in usermode.
> > >   
> > >   Tested by:      obrien, tmm
> > 
> > Pointy hat to:	gcc3.1
> 
> I'd been wondering where the pointy hat had got to. We used to pass it
> around quite a lot when people made genuine silly mistakes and it was
> kind of a kudos thing to know you were human just like everyone else :-)

I don't quite get this 'Pointy hat' thing at all, could someone explain?
Thank you :-)

./danfe

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