Problem with Guile on ia64 (possibly "getcontext" related)

Keith Owens <kaosocs.com.au> writes:

> Wild guess, based on no data.  Add '__attribute__
((returns_twice))' to
> the definition of ia64_getcontext.  That should remove
the need to use
> setjmp.

That also seems to fix the crash.

So would it be correct to say that the likely problem is
just that
because Guile calls getcontext via asm, gcc doesn't know
that the call
needs to be handled specially?

Thanks
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Rob Browning (on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:40:07 -0700) wrote:
>Keith Owens <kaosocs.com.au> writes:
>
>> Wild guess, based on no data.  Add '__attribute__
((returns_twice))' to
>> the definition of ia64_getcontext.  That should
remove the need to use
>> setjmp.
>
>That also seems to fix the crash.

Good.

>So would it be correct to say that the likely problem is
just that
>because Guile calls getcontext via asm, gcc doesn't
know that the call
>needs to be handled specially?

Exactly right.

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