Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am Mi., 20. Nov. 2019, 04:36:
> I came across get_caller_frame in some unrelated code and I was just > curious about this so I wanted to ask. > > What does get_caller_frame return exactly? Is this a pointer to a stack > frame that could be copied to the heap? I'm still interested in how we > could add some form of coroutine like behaviors to pascal and so I was > wondering if we could copy/restore the current stack pointer so that SetJmp > and LongJmp would not blow things up. > It returns the address of the caller's frame pointer. See also https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/get_caller_frame.html It's mainly used in context of raising exceptions with the help of a second function. See here: https://freepascal.org/docs-html/current/ref/refse112.html#x227-24900017.1 Regards, Sven >
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