making naked attr generally available

[Marc Lehmann]

On Mon, May 31, 1999 at 05:49:32PM -0600, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> We've actually get a lot of requests for this stuff over the years.  It's not
> at all uncommon for low level routines to have special requirements for
> prologue/epilogue code.

Here's an interesting example from a totally different part of the
world: the glasgow haskell compiler (and some other compilers for
functional languages) use C as intermediate language yet have to strip
prologue/epilogue code. Doing so by parsing assembly has proved to be very
unstable in the past ;)

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