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Re: [COMMITTED PATCH 2/3] Clean up NPTL longjmp to be compat-only.
- From: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 11:47:51 -0500
- Subject: Re: [COMMITTED PATCH 2/3] Clean up NPTL longjmp to be compat-only.
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On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 12:19:26PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I don't know if there was a historical reason for libpthread to have a
> longjmp wrapper,
There seems to have been at least one arch (I forget which) where the
pthread longjmp historically did stack unwinding to execute
cancellation cleanup handlers that were jumped over.
Rich