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Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 22:29:25 -0500
From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc: Oliver Blasnik <oliver.blasnik@de.tiscali.com>, sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: libc_r
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Apparently, On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:45:55PM +0100,
	Dag-Erling Smorgrav said words to the effect of;

> "Oliver Blasnik" <oliver.blasnik@de.tiscali.com> writes:
> > I can give it a try this weekend...
> 
> It won't work, you need __siglongjmp and ___longjmp which aren't
> implemented on sparc64.  I don't think I can handle those, but I'm
> sure there are others who can :)

These are actually just aliases for longjmp and siglongjmp, I think.
However, longjmp and siglongjmp can't really be used to switch stacks on
sparc64, as is required by libc_r.  What we really need is to implement
setcontext/getcontext and for libc_r to use them.

Jake

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