-finstrument-functions and C++ exceptions

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Wed Apr 13 14:08:00 GMT 2005


On Apr 13, 2005, at 10:06 AM, Chris Kirby wrote:

> We are trying to use -finstrument-functions to do some custom 
> profiling on x86 and ppc.
>
> For normal code execution, it works fine, calling our entry and exit 
> methods as expected.
>
> Unfortunately, we are running into problems related to exceptions.  If 
> we exit a function because of an exception, no exit method is called.  
> This greatly diminishes the usefulness of the instrumentation since we 
> are no longer guaranteed to get matching entry and exit calls.

It works the way you want to for the 4.0 release.

-- Pinski



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