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Re: missing eh regions?
- To: Mike Stump <mrs at wrs dot com>
- Subject: Re: missing eh regions?
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 16:17:26 -0700
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com, rth at cygnus dot com
- References: <199710061959.MAA28119@kankakee.wrs.com>
- Reply-To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
On Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 12:59:04PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
>
> If people really want it, we could smarten the compiler about math
> exception stuff as it relates to EH.
I have no idea whether people really want it, but it certainly seems
like something that someone might want to reasonably do.
> Also, we need to add support for EH sync points (to make the chip
> flush pending insns that might trap) to make this really work as one
> might expect. That requires a new md insn type, and support for it in
> the alpha.md file.
That is essentially what I was doing when I complained.
Incidentally, is there a quick way one can tell if a function has
exception regions? I'd like to be able to abort the pass early
when I can.
r~