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Re: exception-section patch, part 0
- To: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>
- Subject: Re: exception-section patch, part 0
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:10:21 -0600
- cc: egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199806302140.XAA10515@halles.ilog.fr>you write:
> g++ still emits exception handling code to the normal text section, thus
> clobbering upto 50% of the CPU's instruction cache with normally useless
> instructions. The following patch enables gcc to emit exception handling
> code to another section.
>
> This time, I've splitted the patch into small pieces. This may make it
> easier for Jeff to review it.
A note -- I am not the right person to review this code and I will not
be looking at it. Andrew MacLeod and Jason Merrill are responsible
for the EH support.
jeff