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Date:      Tue, 8 Jan 2002 12:30:43 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        <arch@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Getcontext resolution?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0201081230000.94490-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C3AE665.4D6B72A6@vigrid.com>

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On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Dan Eischen wrote:

> Doug Rabson wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Dan Eischen wrote:
> >
> > > I'm incorporating Doug Rabson's comments.  makecontext will allow
> > > passing pointers as arguments to the start function, and the argument
> > > count will not be passed as a parameter:
> >
> > I've been thinking about this and I think that possibly 'intptr_t' would
> > be a better type for the arguments than 'uintptr_t' since that is a signed
> > type.
>
> OK, will change it.  This is really only applicable to alpha and
> other 64-bit archs, though.  I've left i386 as int's since we know
> it's always going to be 32-bits, right?

That sounds about right.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
					Phone: +44 20 8348 6160



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