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Re: PPC32 and state of the project
- From: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- To: "Kevin.Hendricks" <kevin dot hendricks at sympatico dot ca>
- Cc: "Steve Munroe" <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>,GNU libc devel <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 23:52:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: PPC32 and state of the project
- References: <A17E8754-21B8-11D7-BB04-0030654D6A26@sympatico.ca>
On Monday 06 January 2003 21:51, Kevin.Hendricks wrote:
> Hi Franz,
>
> I assume for backward compatibility and since "r2" has its own slot in
> the setjmp buffer
> (i.e. JB__GPR2) we do NOT want to change the size OR the layout of the
> jump buffer (see bits/setjmp.h) and we simply just skip reading and
> writing "r2" but only for powerpc32 right?
Yeah, though we could reconsider it when we finally support Altivec in
setjmp/longjmp :-).
Franz.