Subject: Re: AltiVec and *jmp.
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/02/2002 08:31:10
At 08:20 AM 7/2/2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 08:06:46AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
>
>  > Except that the SVR4 ABI extentions for AltiVec mandate saving the
>  > caller-saved AltiVec registers.  The question comes down to whether
>  > we want to ABI-compliant.
>
>Ah, it's specifically mentioned for setjmp/longjmp?  What about signals?

[opps, the ones saved are v20-v31 which are callee-saved.]

Nothing about signals.  Hmmm, signals could wipe out the caller-saved
ones.  Ewwww.  Got to think about that.


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