Mike Magruder
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In order to ensure that we can continue to interpret code when setting up a step out, even if we're stepping out to jitted code, we set the saved RIP in each ActRec on the stack to the retFromInterpretedFrame() helper. However, this is wrong for generator functions. There is a different variant of the function for generators, so use that when appropriate. Also added a check to ensure we only changed return addresses to jitted code. Mark thought of a rare case where we could have a return address to a C++ helper in there, so leave those alone.
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