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

Rob Browning
2006-07-19T01:40:07Z

Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.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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