Subject: bug#33014: 26.1.50; 27.0.50; Fatal error after re-evaluating a thread's function

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 13:20:19 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Gemini Lasswell <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 10:23:37 +0200
> 
> On Okt 20 2018, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> >> Maybe code optimizers have improved over the last 17 years?
> >
> > I think a much more significant factor is that modern processors have
> > many more registers to use.
> 
> I think an important factor is that they pass arguments in registers, so
> it is more likely that the original value of an argument is lost.

Agreed.  That's part of what I meant by "have many more registers".