Re: Question about signal syscalls !

["Franck Bui-Huu" <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

On 2/2/07, Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:36:30PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> > And now I'm starting to think that we don't need to save static regs in
> > setup_sigcontext() either...
>
> It's possible not to (iirc at least one arch does that) but please
can you tell which one ?

> don't change it now.  This is a userland ABI issue; GDB knows that the
don't worry I don't want to change anything, I'm just trying to understand.

> registers are saved, and there are slots for them in
> sigcontext/ucontext so it would be unexpected if they were not filled
> in.  Could break things like pth.
ok it's a good point to keep in mind.

thanks
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              Franck