glibc 2.0 and glibc 2.1 ppc development

Philip Blundell philb@gnu.org
Sun Aug 9 10:11:00 GMT 1998


>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.

The ABI on many platforms states that the condition codes are not preserved 
across function calls, so there is no need to save them.  On machines where 
the codes do have to be preserved they are indeed saved in the jmp_buf.

p.





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