PPC32 and state of the project

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Mon Jan 6 17:42:00 GMT 2003


Kevin.Hendricks wrote:

> Why not save the thread id register when doing a setjmp/longjmp pair?
> It should never change across a setjmp, longjmp pair should it?

Correct.  A thread is a thread.  If you use longjmp or swapcontext
mustn't change this.  Whatever is used as the thread register, it must
always be preserved.

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