[M3devel] processing stack/context

[Tony Hosking]

Actually, in the latest version I explicitly process the signal context as well as the stack.

On 3 Dec 2009, at 06:09, Jay K wrote:

> Tony, it looks like you assume the context passed to a signal handler is on the stack.
> Is that really guaranteed? It couldn't be in some thread local for some reason?
>  (signals can nest? Therefore that would be problematic?)
> We can just use the address of a local, right?
>  
> And we can assume the signal stack is the regular stack?
> By default?
> (I know sigstack/sigaltstack can fiddle with it; we should assume it isn't used.)
>  
> I noticed this in structure ThreadWin32.m3 a bit more like ThreadPosix.m3.
>  
>  - Jay

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