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Re: bounds checking and traps
- From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- To: <wilson at specifixinc dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:42:43 +0200
- Subject: Re: bounds checking and traps
>These are standard named patterns. Grep for "gen_trap", and note where
>it is called.
I did exactly that, and didn't find any meaningful references (as I
said before, folloiwng the call tree, TRAP_IF must be found somewhere in
order for gen_trap [or gen_conditional_trap] to be called, but I wasn't
able to find anything anywhere that would actually set TRAP_IF).
>Yes, this may need to be OS dependent.
But then this can't be OS-independent (i386.md) code.
Jan