[cfe-dev] return inside scope with VLA

[Anders Carlsson]

5 feb 2009 kl. 06.17 skrev David Chisnall:

> My next issue is the error in the subject of this email.  Is anyone
> working on this?  If not, I will try to spend some time on it over the
> next week.  My understanding of the problem is that the following
> sequence needs to happen:
>
> 1) The return RValue needs to be written to an alloca created in the
> function entry point.
> 2) The stack saved values need to be popped off one after the other
> (or can we just pop the top-level one?)
> 3) The finally block needs to be called if there is one.
> 4) Emit a jump to the return block.
>
> Am I missing anything?  It seems like the best way of doing this would
> be to put most of the new code inside EmitBranch(), since this is
> called from a number of other methods that aren't fully implemented
> yet for similar reasons.
>
> David

Hi David,

I've been working on this for the last couple of days and I am pretty  
close to having something landable.

Anders