WIP: save registers of tasks that were active right before GC on a ucontext_t for conservative scanning #55003
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Garbage collectors that are fully or partially conservative usually need to look at what was stored in the registers of the tasks right before GC started, and may also benefit from having information about the stack pointer at the time GC started in order to determine the lower/upper bounds of the stack.
Let's expose a call to support register saving for conservative GCs.
The current implementation is WIP because:
jl_ucontext_t
itself, instead of adding a new field to the TLS as I'm doing now.x86_64
Linux for now.CC: @qinsoon, @kpamnany.