Re: Question about signal syscalls !

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 11:43:13AM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:

> I'm probably missing something very obvious so the subject could have
> been "Dumb question of the week". So please be nice when answering ;)
> 
> I'm wondering why we need to save/restore the static registers
> (s0...s7) when dealing with some  signal system calls. Specially all
> of them which are declared by using save_static_function() macros.

The values of those registers need to be preserved so they can later be
copied into the signal frame.

  Ralf