This type can be used to jump back to a previous position in a program
from inside an interrupt. This is useful for baremetal systems that
implement wfi but not wfe, and therefore have no easy (race-free) way to
wait until a flag gets changed inside an interrupt. This is an issue on
RISC-V, where this is racy (the interrupt might happen after the check
but before the wfi instruction):
configureInterrupt()
for flag.Load() != 0 {
riscv.Asm("wfi")
}
This is a small change to make it easier to support architectures that
need to restore more than just the sp and pc registers. In particular,
it is needed for the AVR architecture that needs to restore the frame
pointer (Y register).