__attribute__((cleanup(function)) versus try/finally

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:29:50AM -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> If table size is a big issue, we can have C default to sjlj EH (lower 
> cost in non-EH code), and integrate in handling for sjlj exceptions 
> into the dwarf EH system.

Lets not, please.  This is much harder than you realize, and
involves a siginificant performance impact to dwarf-only EH.

I *did* investigate this once upon a time, when rewriting the
exception handling code the last go-round.


r~