On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Bernd Schmidt <bschm...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/27/2016 08:12 PM, Richard Biener wrote: >> >> >> >> Am Freitag, 26. Februar 2016 schrieb Jeff Law : >> >> The other case that came to mind was signal handlers. What happens >> if we're using the global register as a scratch, we hit a memory >> reference that faults and inside the signal handler the original >> code expects to be able to use the global register the user set up? >> >> If that's a valid use scenario, then there's probably all kinds of >> DF stuff that we'd need to expose. >> >> I'd say that's a valid assumption. Though maybe we want to be able to >> change semantics with a flag here. > > > A flag seems like overkill, I don't think people are likely to enable that > ever. > > So what's the consensus here, closed wontfix?
I think so, and maybe update documentation to reflect the discussion. Richard. > > Bernd > >
