Re: [Linux-ia64] use of setcontext()/getcontext()

David Mosberger
2001-10-10T22:17:01Z

>>>>> On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 08:01:16 +0200 (CEST), stefan <stefan@lkcc.org> said:

Stefan> One more question about this: The `ucontext_t' structure
Stefan> seemed to changed a bit over the weeks. Since when is it
Stefan> known to have the sc_ar_bsp member (glibc version) ?

I thought that member was there pretty much "forever". However, I did
add sc_rbs_base and sc_loadrs recently. This is really for
sigcontext, but since ucontext_t is effectively an alias, it would be
affected, too.

Stefan> Also I would like to know if

Stefan> extern unsigned long
Stefan> __libc_ia64_register_backing_store_base; or extern void *
Stefan> __libc_ia64_register_backing_store_base;

Stefan> is meant to be correct.

Either one should work.

--david