At 04:37 PM 2/28/2005, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
>Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> writes:
>
> > At 06:02 PM 2/25/2005, you wrote:
> > >Just tried -current (NetBSD 2.99.16). Still doesn't
> > >seem to work.
> >
> > You need use sigaction and specify SA_SIGINFO.
> > Only in that case will FP (or AltiVec) registers be preserved.
>
>What's the justification for this restriction? I'm not aware of any
>language in SUSv3 or the PPC ABI that restricts FP code in signal
>handlers.

Because that's the way it's been done.  I didn't design it but I can
understand the reason for it.  Note that sigcontext doesn't have
space for the FP register set.


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