Floating point registers are not preserved
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Our project (https://github.com/DARMA-tasking/vt) uses Boost context for our task-based runtime system for scientific applications in HPC. Recently, we found a bug in a scientific application that uses our library after a context switch that we finally figured was due to not preserving nonvolatile floating point registers (in this case we were running on PPC64, but I think the problem is more prevalent). According to the POWER9 specification, FP14-FP31 are nonvolatile and must be preserved for correct context switching (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2?topic=overview-register-usage-conventions).
I've noticed looking back in the history that floating point preservation was dropped around v1.61. The argument for preserving in `jump_fcontext` was dropped. I'm trying to understand why this functionality was lost.
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