Re: saving GPRs?

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"Subdimension" <abhi_don@subdimension.com> wrote:
> hi,
>   I was wondering why theGeneral Purpose Registers
> eax,eabx,ecx,edx....aren't saved in tss when doing a process switch.
>   the code to switch is on line 16 of system.h and it calls a function
> switch_to () on line 679 process.c

It's far more easier.. That's an old misbehaviour of the glibc. It is one of these old ones that doesn't include their own kernel headers an links to /usr/src/linux/include... So when I have a /usr/src/linux everything will be fine again... I really have forgotton about this.

*Kristian

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