A few weeks ago, David Mosberger responded to my request for a setjmp implementation that I could use for doing user-mode context switches. He said that there were pending changes to setjmp that might help: | (2) The current setjmp()/longjmp() implementation cannot be used for | stack switching purposes, because it does not preserve ar.rnat. | There was some discussion on what we should do about this and the | conclusion was to fix the routines so they do preserve ar.rnat. | The main argument for changing the routines was that the IA-64 | SCRA requires ar.rnat to be part of the jmp_buf. And further, | (4) If the app absolutely must implement its own thread packages, use | the *context() routines defined by the Single UNIX Spec. The | only trouble is that they haven't been implemented for Linux yet. | (Anyone volunteers?) I've cvs up'd the latest glibc from http://sources.redhat.com/glibc/ and all I see is version 2.1.95. Are there relevant changes on the 2.2 branch? If so, how do I go about getting access to the latest and greatest? Even if I can't use the glibc setjmp directly, I'm hoping I can adapt it or something like it to what I need. Seeing the diffs David mentions in #2 above might help me better understand how the voodoo works. Thanks! SteveReceived on Wed Oct 25 12:35:42 2000
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