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    [project @ 2001-08-07 20:06:41 by ken] · 9bab7a0e
    Ken Shan authored
    Fixed (I hope, and have reason to believe) mysterious segfaulting problem
    on the Alpha.
    
    The problem (I hope, and have reason to believe) was that, during a few
    instructions, the register saving/restoring code in StgRun() places data
    below the current SP value.  (I.e., it should first reserve stack space,
    then put data in said space, rather than first put data in, then reserve
    the space.)
    
       "The SP value might be used by the hardware when raising exceptions and
        asynchronous interrupts. It must be assumed that the contents of the stack
        below the current SP value and within the stack for the current thread are
        continually and unpredictably modified, as specified in the _Alpha
        Architecture Reference Manual_, and as a result of asynchronous software
        actions."
    
       -- Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston. Tru64 UNIX Calling Standard for
          Alpha Systems, 5.1 edition, August 2000, section 3.2.1.  http://www.
          tru64unix.compaq.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51_PDF/ARH9MBTE.PDF
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