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From: urlichs@noris.de (Matthias Urlichs)
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Subject: Re: Architecture related questions
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Date: 3 Jan 1995 10:07:43 -0500
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In comp.os.research, article <3d9nhh$aeu@bosnia.pop.psu.edu>,
  hzhou@cs.utk.edu (Honbo Zhou) writes:
> 
> I am porting a SPARC-based thread package to other platforms.
> I need to use asm() to incorporate assmbly language stuff into 
> the C codes to do the context switching. This differs from 
> architecture to architecture. 
> 
You might want to have a look at publicly-available kernels, esp. BSD which
seems to support quite a few architectures.

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