On 10/25/26 1:25 AM, Jan Schaumann wrote:
For many people perusing library function manual pages, the term "environment" primarily brings to mind the _process_ environment (as in "environment variables"). I think it might be useful to nudge people's thinking a bit more towards the actual meaning.
I think this is misleading just as much. On most architectures, we in fact don't have to save all the registers and we shouldn't promise to do that either. It's a functional call, so anything not caller-preserved can be gone.
Joerg