Re: w3m / boehm-gc issue (really is getcontext in x86_64)

[Markus Pfeiffer <profmakx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

On 2011-12-17, Matthias Rampke <matthias@rampke.de> wrote:
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> On Friday, 16. December 2011 at 13:28, John Marino wrote:
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>> FYI, Per bugs #2108, Alex created the getContext.S function a few months ago:
>> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~alexh/0001-getcontext-x86_64-implementation.patch
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> FWIW, here's my (failed) stab at taking Alex' getcontext.S and the old x86_64 makecontext.c and signalcontext.c from before the removal:
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> http://2p.grade.so/dfly/getmakesignalcontext.patch
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> It does not compile, because there is no PIC_PROLOGUE and PIC_EPILOGUE for x86_64 – I don't know why (not needed?) and my last and only steps with assembler were a long long time ago and involved only a quarter of bits so I really don't know where to go from that. But maybe the {make,signal}context implementations are of any use?
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This code is wrong in numerous places (wrong registers used for parameter passing, wrong size of arguments etc). I posted a patch to the issue tracker but that seems to have problems too. I will try to fix those tomorrow and also provide setcontext and swapcontext.

Cheers,
Markus

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