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Re: Questions about hppa *context functions.

From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
To: Helge Deller <deller at gmx dot de>, linux-parisc <linux-parisc at vger dot kernel dot org>, libc-ports at sourceware dot org
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:15:37 -0500
Subject: Re: Questions about hppa *context functions.
References: <119aab441001310825x6fa7254u85c00dc1b0588950@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Carlos O'Donell
<carlos@systemhalted.org> wrote:
> Helge,
>
> On December 15th, 2009 an additional *context test was added to glibc,
> see stdlib/tst-makecontext3.c.
>
> This test fails on hppa with:
> ~~~
> makecontext: does not know how to handle more than 8 arguments
> ~~~

New patch attached with additional changes:
* Align the incoming stack to 64-bytes.
* Adjust for frame.
* Adjust saved stack pointer.

The following patch allows the new test to pass for the 32-bit runtime.

I can't guarantee this works for a 64-bit runtime.

Helge, can you comment on the attached patch?

Cheers,
Carlos.

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