From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 18:31:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C9237B401; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9596243F85; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:31:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eischen@vigrid.com) Received: from mail.pcnet.com (mail.pcnet.com [204.213.232.4]) by mail.pcnet.com (8.12.8/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h781VCuN010662; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:31:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 21:31:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen X-Sender: eischen@pcnet5.pcnet.com To: Marcel Moolenaar In-Reply-To: <20030808012317.GA1835@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: deischen@freebsd.org cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] libpthread support X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: deischen@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 01:31:14 -0000 On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:38:30PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > I've got some preliminary patches to add alpha support to libpthread: > > I'll boot-up my alpha and play with it a bit... Don't you have enought to do with ia64! Not that I mind... :-) > > http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/kse/libc.diffs.alpha > > Can we merge the functionality of signalcontext() and makecontext()? I know; they're so close. Perhaps they can both call the same function with slightly different arguments. I do like the cleaner implementation of signalcontext() though, i.e., the part about not having to a separate _ctx_start.S. -- Dan Eischen