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Re: [PATCH 2/4] aarch64: Re-implement setcontext without sigreturn syscall
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>
- Cc: Will Newton <will dot newton at linaro dot org>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 18:45:03 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] aarch64: Re-implement setcontext without sigreturn syscall
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Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> writes:
> Well I think "basically nobody" is using any archs but x86[_64] and
> arm, at least for some sense of "basically nobody"... ;-) But you may
> very well be right. I just sort of question what's the point in even
> offering these interfaces on new archs, though, if they don't do
> anything significant that setjmp/longjmp can't do.
There's a reason POSIX has removed them...
Andreas.
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