On Wednesday, 14 March 2012 at 16:37:45 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
Le 14/03/2012 17:08, Vladimir Panteleev a écrit :On Wednesday, 14 March 2012 at 11:11:54 UTC, deadalnix wrote:You are loosing EAX in the process.When would this matter? EAX is a scratch register per ABIs, no?You may want to return from the function the standard way an resume operations. To implement a moving GC using page protection for example.
This doesn't have anything to do with turning signals into exceptions.