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From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
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>>>>> "Konstantin" == Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> writes:

 Konstantin> The issue I see is that there is no reserved unused fields
 Konstantin> in mcontext_t on ARM, so probably some trick with not using
 Konstantin> fpu save area at all for fpu registers might be needed.

There aren't any reserved fields, but the entire __fpu element of
mcontext_t is currently unused in the sense that no register values are
ever stored there by the kernel.

-- 
Andrew.