PPC32 and state of the project

Franz Sirl Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com
Mon Jan 6 22:52:00 GMT 2003


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.



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