PPC32 and state of the project

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:52:39PM +0100, Franz Sirl wrote:
> 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 :-).

If anyone's still curious, I posted patches to do this something like a
year ago and got overwhelming silence; I'll be updating them to 2.3 in
the next couple of weeks anyway.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer