31 Dec
2002
31 Dec
'02
5:02 p.m.
Wolfgang Helbig wrote:
Michael Davidson distrusted:
Yes, you are right - V7 restores the register variables to a state which
is consistent with the other auto variables in the function - ie the value
which they had when longjmp was called.
The caveats about not relying on register variables applied to V6.
Note that this means that r4, r3 and r2 get
restored to the values
that they had at the time that the next stack frame was established
(ie when the "next" function down was called from the original context)
and that these are not necessarily the values that they had at the
moment when the original call to setjnp returned. Hence the various
caveats about not relying on the value of any register variables
after returning via longjmp.
You can trust register variables when setjmp() returns the second time. Then
the registers are restored to the values they had when the "next" function was
called, that is the "values as of the time longjmp() was called" (quoted from
longjmp(3)'s man page. Thus any variable behaves the same, regardless of its
storage class.