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Re: i386 nonlocal_goto_receiver patch
- To: john at feith dot com (John Wehle)
- Subject: Re: i386 nonlocal_goto_receiver patch
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 22 Jun 1998 01:56:37 -0700
- Cc: egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- References: <199806210313.XAA06343@jwlab.FEITH.COM>
>>>>> John Wehle <john@feith.com> writes:
> This patch removes the nonlocal_goto_receiver pattern since all it
> does is restore the global table pointer which is in the PIC register.
> The documentation in md.texi indicates that a nonlocal goto only
> happens within a unit-of-translation and as a result doesn't need
> to restore the global table pointer since it's already correct.
Hmm...but exceptions also use the nonlocal_goto_receiver.
Jason