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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: jmp_buf Message-ID: <D3731y.6Kn@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 01:34:45 GMT Lines: 13 Can someone explain why the size of a jmp_buf has been reduced from 10 to 8 words in FreeBSD 2.0? It's still 10 (for 386) in NetBSD 1.0 (and 4.4-lite). Changing such things causes extremely obscure problems in what otherwise appear to be binary-compatible systems. -- Richard -- Satan himself, in a sermon preached from the pulpit of North Berwick church, comforted his many servants by assuring them that no harm could befall them "sa lang as their hair wes on, an sould newir latt ane teir fall fra thair ene". - J G Frazer, The Golden Bough