[PATCH][4.3] Deprecate -ftrapv
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini@gnu.org
Mon Mar 3 08:07:00 GMT 2008
> Unless printing "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate
> it in an unusual way." counts an issuing a contraint_error in Ada,
> it seems to me that -ftrapv and Ada have differing requirements.
> How can you portabilty and correctly generate a constraint_error if
> the code generated by -ftrapv calls the C runtime function abort()?
The advantage of a GIMPLE implementation would be that you could use a
langhook to insert the appropriate function call for overflowing
computation.
> With INTO I don't
> see any way distignuish the SIGSEGV it generates on Linux from any of
> the myriad other ways a SIGSEGV can be generated.
sc.eip == 0xCE (if I remember x86 opcodes well :-) as I'm going by heart...)
That's similar to how Java traps SIGFPEs and transform them to
zero-divide exceptions, IIRC.
Paolo
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