Threading theory - reg and stack preservation.

[Timbo]

Greetiings,

How does Windows preserve register and stack contents during a context swtich?  Or any other OS for that matter?

Thanks in advance,

Tim

[dsouza123]

Google gave good results with the terms

windows context switch registers

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/training/ntarchitectoview/ntarc_4.mspx

http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=107


cs task switch  a result is a set of pages on 80386 multitasking from the CPU perspective

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2006/readings/i386/c07.htm