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Re: [tree-ssa] Removal of gotos from cfg based ir


> > > In LLVM, all control flow (for both normal and exceptional control) is
> > > represented explicitly in the program.  For example, "fall-through" edges
> > > are explicit gotos, which are eliminated during code generation.  This
> 
> > Interesting.  How do you deal with the exception handling edges?
> > Does call having EH edge become somthing like call+goto combo?
> 
> Exactly right.  As an example:
> 
> void test() {
>   A x;  // has ctor/dtor
>   mightthrow();
>   ...
> 
> }
> 
> Would be represented as:
> 
> void %test() {
>   %x = alloca %A
>   call void %A::A(%A* %x)   // construct A
>   invoke void %mightthrow() to %normal except %exceptionthrown
> 
> normal:
>   ...
> 
> exceptionthrown:
>   call void %A::~A(%A* %x)  // destruct A
>   unwind
> }
> 
> The LLVM EH constructs are described in more detail in this paper:
> http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/pubs/2003-09-30-LifelongOptimizationTR.html
> 
> Note that this makes spliting exception edges and other CFG work both
> completely trivial, and uniform with the rest of the representation.

Do you have such a implicit goto hidden in each call, or just calls that
may trap?  What about other kinds of instructions?
Do you support non-call exception like Java has?

Honza
> 
> -Chris
> 
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