Functions that always return

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Sat Oct 28 13:01:00 GMT 2000


On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 03:15:27PM +1300, Michael Hayes wrote:
> Is there a mechanism where we tell if a CALL_INSN will always return?

A pure or const function: CONST_CALL_P.

> I had always assumed that a libcall would always return but looking in
> libgcc2.c, I see that udivmoddi4 may generate a divide by zero
> exception.

Yes, well, the point of needing to know whether a function will
return is that it might exit cleanly -- udivmoddi4 will never do
that.


r~


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