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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: Re: writing context-switching code for a Sequent Symmetry under DYNIX
Keywords: context-switching, BP register
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Date: 19 Dec 90 22:38:32 GMT
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In article <776@creatures.cs.vt.edu> svp@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (Joel Patterson) writes:
? I am trying to write context-switching code for a Symmetry under DYNIX.  
? I need to have a frame pointer register for use with the stack (similar
? to the frame pointer register in a 68000).  I think I should be able to
? use the BP register, but I am not sure.  Can anyone help me on this?  The
? Symmetry uses an 80386.

? Joel Patterson   	                          UUCP: svp@csgrad.UUCP
? 804-421-9398					  INET: svp@csgrad.cs.vt.edu

That's what Sequent does. I think that's the most common choice. 
A cc -S command will tell you all you need to know.
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	Root Boy Jim Cottrell <rbj@uunet.uu.net>
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