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Re: glibc 2.0 and glibc 2.1 ppc development
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.0 and glibc 2.1 ppc development
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 03 Aug 1998 10:45:05 -0700
- Cc: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu>, libc-alpha@cygnus.com
- References: <v03010d00b1ea2c6c340a@[209.96.178.53]> <98080218151300.00617@ns1102.munich.netsurf.de>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
> as I don't think this is PPC specific, I cc'ed it to libc-alpha. A
> quick browse in the glibc-2.1 sources showed that no platform seems
> to save the condition code in jmp_buf. So this is probably a issue
> with kaffe on all platforms.
This is a PPC specific problem if the conditional code register stores
anything beside this. There is no guarantee that the flags are
preserved over setjmp() and the backends I know don't depend on this.
Geoff already said he has a solution for PPC so I await his patch.
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