Anyone knows about a testcase which was fixed by Wed Dec 24 18:05:13 1997 SPARC change?
Richard Henderson
rth@cygnus.com
Mon Oct 16 17:55:00 GMT 2000
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:32:57PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> > But even then it would be needed for -mflat only, as register windows take
> > care of the non-flat pic pointer.
>
> Imagine the case where a symbol needs to be accessed on the far side,
> from the pic register, but after the EH mechanism has redone the stack
> pointer, and the frame pointer and the entire frame. You discover
> that the pic register needs reloading, again, on the far side.
You're not listening: we reload the *entire* register window
for the target function in the process of "longjmping" back.
That takes care of the pic register and everything else that
must be restored.
r~
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