Versioning longjmp etc.
Steve Munroe
sjmunroe@us.ibm.com
Fri Oct 17 21:12:00 GMT 2003
Ulrich Drepper writes:
> Why should this be necessary? It makes almost no sense at all to
> include the content of these registers in the state. setjmp/longjmp are
> probably never used in the middle of computations in which vector
> registers are used.
For the future when gcc supports autovectorization.
I want to make VMX as usable as possible, without undefined behaviors or
undocumented restrictions.
How about get/set/make/swapcontext? The size of ucontext will change as a
result of VMX state in sigcontext. This requires versioning.
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