[PATCH] getpid/vfork/raise fix
David Mosberger
davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Wed Mar 10 16:56:00 GMT 2004
>>>>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:33:05 +0100, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> said:
Andreas> That doesn't seem to work, though. I'm getting p3 != p4 in
Andreas> the posix vfork tests. Or do you see any error in my
Andreas> implementation?
Most scratch registers are _not_ preserved across system calls. You
could spill the register onto the memory stack though. If it uses at
most 16 bytes, you won't have to adjust the stack pointer even.
--david
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