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Re: increase in object code size
- To: rth at cygnus dot com (Richard Henderson), egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: increase in object code size
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 23 Sep 1997 18:25:26 -0700
- References: <199709231845.OAA14441@biohazard-cafe.MIT.EDU><199709240001.RAA05779.cygnus.egcs@dot.cygnus.com>
>>>>> Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> writes:
> No, because you will want to support throwing exceptions from
> signal handlers. This is most useful from synchronous signals
> such as SEGV and FPE, but I could also see uses for ALRM.
Not gon' happen, or not everywhere anyway. On the x86, SEGV screws up the
stack. How do you unwind a signal handler?
Jason