On 10/25/26 1:25 AM, Jan Schaumann wrote:
For many people perusing library function manual
pages, the term "environment" primarily brings to mind
the _process_ environment (as in "environment
variables").
I think it might be useful to nudge people's thinking
a bit more towards the actual meaning.
I think this is misleading just as much. On most architectures, we in
fact don't have to save all the registers and we shouldn't promise to do
that either. It's a functional call, so anything not caller-preserved
can be gone.
Joerg
