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Re: [tree-ssa] Lowering of VLA's, part 2

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:00:11 +0200, Zdenek Dvorak <rakdver@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> wrote:

> Hello,
>
>> >> > 	* gimplify.c (struct tree_p_list): New type.
>> >> > 	(join_tree_p_list, add_tree_p_list, free_tree_p_list,
>> >> > 	build_stack_save_restore, prepend_to_exit_gotos): New functions.
>> >> 
>> >> Use a TRY_FINALLY_EXPR instead.
>> >
>> > unnecesarily creating new eh handling constructs (that we really do not
>> > manage somehow greatly) seems a bit like overkill to me.
>
>> If we want the stack to be restored properly when we
>> exit a block with a throw, we need to use an EH construct.
>
> do we indeed want this? Of course it won't spoil anything, but
> we can live without it.

We absolutely want this.  That we don't do it currently is a bug.

Jason
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