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Andrew Haley wrote: > Mark Shannon wrote: >> Andrew Haley wrote: > >>> Let's go back a bit. Your claim is that there is no need to unwind >>> frame-by-frame, an unwind simply needs to make a single jump to an >>> invoke instruction and restore the context (which in x86 is just 6 >>> registers). (This is, more or less, what longjmp() does.)

Mark Shannon wrote: > Andrew Haley wrote: >> Let's go back a bit. Your claim is that there is no need to unwind >> frame-by-frame, an unwind simply needs to make a single jump to an >> invoke instruction and restore the context (which in x86 is just 6 >> registers). (This is, more or less, what longjmp() does.) Duncan Sands >> explained to you why that