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Re: makecontext and its arguments

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

|> Andreas Schwab wrote:
|> 
|> > To which type?  What if the integer is of type __int128 (TImode)?
|> 
|> What has this to do with the problem?

This is the crux of the problem.  makecontext talks about "integer
arguments", and __int128 is an integer type.  So it is obliged to handle
this.

|> All larger types and pointers and float are left alone.  If you pass such
|> a value to makecontext you get what you'd get on other platforms: garbage.

This is not what the specification says.

Andreas.

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