cvs commit: fptools/ghc/rts StgCRun.c

Simon Marlow simonmar@microsoft.com
Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:35:13 +0100


> ken         2001/08/07 13:06:41 PDT
>=20
>   Modified files:
>     ghc/rts              StgCRun.c=20
>   Log:
>   Fixed (I hope, and have reason to believe) mysterious=20
> segfaulting problem
>   on the Alpha.
>  =20
>   The problem (I hope, and have reason to believe) was that,=20
> during a few
>   instructions, the register saving/restoring code in=20
> StgRun() places data
>   below the current SP value.  (I.e., it should first reserve=20
> stack space,
>   then put data in said space, rather than first put data in,=20
> then reserve
>   the space.)

Ah yes, that'll be it.  Good catch!

Simon
 =20