Re: Functions that always return

[Michael Hayes <mhayes at redhat dot com>]

Mike Stump writes:
 > You can never know if anything returns.  Almost all functions are
 > permitted to longjmp, call exit or loop infinitely, because of this,
 > you can't know that they return.

I should have been more explicit; I was thinking in terms of libcalls
or functions explicitly marked pure or const.  In particular,
the shadowing of a mem by a register across a libcall.

 > As a group, we need to stop using the phrase expcetion to mean a
 > signaling event and only use the word to mean things related to the
 > file except.c.  I'd propose raise a signal, fault or interrupt.

How about trap?  I think this is the more common synonym for a
processor exception and is also used in the sources.

We should have some docs on this and for REG_EH_REGION (this is not
documented in rtl.texi).

Michael.