[PATCH] Statepoint infrastructure for garbage collection

Andrew Trick atrick at apple.com
Fri Oct 24 09:31:37 PDT 2014


> On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:39 PM, Sanjoy Das <sanjoy at playingwithpointers.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Is there also an issue with your runtime restoring callee saves when unwinding? This is unfortunately a platform-specific issue that LLVM JITs currently face. You may have solved it given you're only targetting one platform. Please bring it up in the MCJIT BOF Tuesday if it's an issue for you.
> 
> As of now, we don't need this for GC, but we need this for
> deoptimization support.  We parse the .eh_frame section for this
> currently.

Cool. So you just need to extend it to GC support.

-Andy

> I'll let Philip answer the rest of your email. :)
> 
> -- Sanjoy





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