Functions that always return

Richard Kenner kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu
Sun Oct 29 08:58:00 GMT 2000


    At least for C++ we don't mark functions constant if they can
    raise exceptions.   And there are no stack checks to worry about.

Why not?  On Alpha, for example, stack checking is part of the ABI.

Is a constant functgion allowed to call other functions?


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