glibc 2.0 and glibc 2.1 ppc development

[Ulrich Drepper]

Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:

> as I don't think this is PPC specific, I cc'ed it to libc-alpha. A
> quick browse in the glibc-2.1 sources showed that no platform seems
> to save the condition code in jmp_buf. So this is probably a issue
> with kaffe on all platforms.

This is a PPC specific problem if the conditional code register stores
anything beside this.  There is no guarantee that the flags are
preserved over setjmp() and the backends I know don't depend on this.
Geoff already said he has a solution for PPC so I await his patch.

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