missing eh regions?

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Mon Oct 6 16:25:00 GMT 1997


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~



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