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Date:      Fri, 21 Apr 2000 23:37:53 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
To:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: porting Java to the alpha
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.21.0004212333380.28130-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0004212244200.28130-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>

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On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, I wrote:

# 2) Is there any state that I need to worry about maintaining
#    when switching contexts that {,sig}setjmp and {,sig}longjmp
#    don't already do for me?  I know the Alpha doesn't have
#    FP registers, but for instance on the i386 you have to
#    (re)store the FPU mask when switching contexts.  Anything like
                   ^^^^^^^^
I meant to say FPU registers here.  The FPU mask is already
handled correctly on the i386 as it is saved in the sigjmp_buf
but all of you knew that already. :-)

-steve



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