PowerPC Altivec version of setjmp/longjmp
Joel Sherrill
joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com
Fri Aug 31 21:02:00 GMT 2007
Eric Norum wrote:
> The code in powerpc/setjmp.S contains conditionally assembled code
> which saves/restores the Altivec registers. This breaks on operating
> systems like RTEMS which do not normally enable the Altivec unit. The
> RTEMS maintainers asked me to submit this patch which was originally
> provided by Till Straumann <strauman@slac.stanford.edu>
> The patch is quite small so I've just attached it to this message.
There haven't been any comments on this.
Just because the CPU supports a feature doesn't mean it is enabled.
This patch just honors that. Please consider merging it.
Thanks.
--joel sherrill
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