[LLVMdev] Any plans to add LLVM support for ARM EH EABI ?

Jason Kim jasonwkim at google.com
Mon Sep 27 09:14:05 PDT 2010


On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Dennis Taul <dtaul at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>
> I am new to LLVM but have perused the code alongside using llvm-gcc
> and CLANG to build ARM EABI objects.
>
> Based on this superficial analysis it appears that LLVM currently does
> not support the ARM Exception Handling ABI (as defined under the
> EABI).
>
> Can anyone comment on whether plans are in place to remedy this?
> I did see the discussion regarding work on the MC for ARM. Will this
> work include emitting the exception handling code/tables compliant to
> ARM's EH ABI?

Probably not at first. It may require discussions with the specific
front end folks (clang, llvm-gcc et al).

Thanks for bringing it up tho.,

>
> Thanks,
>
> -Dennis
>
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