[LLVMdev] Unwinds Gone Wild

[Mike Stump]

On Sep 29, 2008, at 2:13 AM, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 09:50 +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:
>> For the moment, yes.  If unwind gets implemented one day (I have a  
>> plan,
>> but no time right now), the implementation is sure to call routines  
>> in
>> the gcc runtime.
>
> As a transient solution that makes sense, but it seems desirable to  
> have
> a generalized unwind scheme that is not tied to libgcc.

Ok, but, realize that in order to be platform abi compatible with gcc/g 
++, one _must_ do certain things.  If you had a totally different  
scheme that didn't interoperate with gcc/g++, then, you break the  
platform abi.  If one can throw out such compatibility, then, well, it  
just doesn't matter.