On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:43:13AM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > I'm probably missing something very obvious so the subject could have > been "Dumb question of the week". So please be nice when answering ;) > > I'm wondering why we need to save/restore the static registers > (s0...s7) when dealing with some signal system calls. Specially all > of them which are declared by using save_static_function() macros. The values of those registers need to be preserved so they can later be copied into the signal frame. Ralf