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Russ Cox wrote:

> If the OS does not provide a working makecontext, getcontext,
> and setcontext, then you need to write those too.  They needn't
> follow any structures laid down by the rest of the system.
> They just have to match each other.  For example, power-ucontext.h
> is just made up from scratch.  It just needs to be a register set and
> match the assembly.


Also, I did not realize this when I did armv, but you needn't worry
about saving/restoring the signal mask. That really makes like easy --
no syscall needed.

ron