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Re: PPC32 and state of the project
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Cc: "Kevin.Hendricks" <kevin dot hendricks at sympatico dot ca>,Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>,GNU libc devel <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 19:57:41 -0500
- Subject: Re: PPC32 and state of the project
- References: <A17E8754-21B8-11D7-BB04-0030654D6A26@sympatico.ca> <200301062352.39578@enzo.bigblue.local>
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:52:39PM +0100, Franz Sirl wrote:
> On Monday 06 January 2003 21:51, Kevin.Hendricks wrote:
> > Hi Franz,
> >
> > I assume for backward compatibility and since "r2" has its own slot in
> > the setjmp buffer
> > (i.e. JB__GPR2) we do NOT want to change the size OR the layout of the
> > jump buffer (see bits/setjmp.h) and we simply just skip reading and
> > writing "r2" but only for powerpc32 right?
>
> Yeah, though we could reconsider it when we finally support Altivec in
> setjmp/longjmp :-).
If anyone's still curious, I posted patches to do this something like a
year ago and got overwhelming silence; I'll be updating them to 2.3 in
the next couple of weeks anyway.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer