Re: Question about signal syscalls !

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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


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