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Re: New ABI EH (was Re: C++ PATCH: Switch to the new ABI)
>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> writes:
Jason> It seems to me that the ia64 ABI design offers a good
Jason> framework for interoperation of runtimes from different
Jason> sources; our current scheme provides a limited callback
Jason> mechanism for dealing with language semantics, but the
Jason> personality routine provides more flexibility. For
Jason> non-ia64 targets, we probably also want to provide
Jason> callbacks for alternate unwind info formats, so that a Java
Jason> interpreter (say) doesn't have to build up dwarf2 on the
Jason> fly.
Excellent! All those thoughts were exactly the motiviation behind my
earlier posting -- I'm glad that you agree, and I apologize if I
wasn't clear the first time.
Now, it's just a question of doing the work... Also, is there EH code
in glibc (i.e., for qsort?) that uses the old scheme?
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