[PATCH 2/4] aarch64: Re-implement setcontext without sigreturn syscall

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Wed Mar 19 17:45:00 GMT 2014


Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> writes:

> Well I think "basically nobody" is using any archs but x86[_64] and
> arm, at least for some sense of "basically nobody"... ;-) But you may
> very well be right. I just sort of question what's the point in even
> offering these interfaces on new archs, though, if they don't do
> anything significant that setjmp/longjmp can't do.

There's a reason POSIX has removed them...

Andreas.

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