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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
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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