On 2/2/07, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:36:30PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > And now I'm starting to think that we don't need to save static regs in > setup_sigcontext() either... It's possible not to (iirc at least one arch does that) but please
can you tell which one ?
don't change it now. This is a userland ABI issue; GDB knows that the
don't worry I don't want to change anything, I'm just trying to understand.
registers are saved, and there are slots for them in sigcontext/ucontext so it would be unexpected if they were not filled in. Could break things like pth.
ok it's a good point to keep in mind. thanks -- Franck