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Guys,<div> regarding alloca.</div><div><br></div><div>not only are exceptions a problem here, but just plain old "longjmp".</div><div><br></div><div>-Peter Lawrence.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:00 AM, <a href="mailto:llvmdev-request@cs.uiuc.edu">llvmdev-request@cs.uiuc.edu</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">------------------------------</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Message: 4</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:55:07 -0400</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">From: Rafael Avila de Espindola <<a href="mailto:rafael.espindola@gmail.com">rafael.espindola@gmail.com</a>></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] [Segmented Stacks] Week 1</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">To: Sanjoy Das <<a href="mailto:sanjoy@playingwithpointers.com">sanjoy@playingwithpointers.com</a>></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Cc: <a href="mailto:llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu">llvmdev@cs.uiuc.edu</a></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:4DE555AB.9050302@gmail.com">4DE555AB.9050302@gmail.com</a>></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">On 11-05-30 07:20 AM, Sanjoy Das wrote:</font></p> <blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Hi!</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">I've attached my first week of work as a patchset for review. This is</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">also available on Github [1].</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">By next Monday I intend to (more or less) finish up the preliminary</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">parts concerning the codegen; and start working on the runtime (so that</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">I can do a basic sanity check).</font></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Thanks!. Some quick notes</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">*) Maybe you could add the description you used for the GSoC to the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">segmented-stacks document too? Maybe at the end and under a "not yet<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">implemented" section, but having it all in one place is probably useful.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">*) You use "stack block" in some places and stacklets in others.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">*) You mention that variable sized alloca's are handled by using the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">heap. This is an interesting idea, but you have to be careful to avoid<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">leaks if exceptions are enabled.</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">*) If I remember correctly, you wanted to fold the red zone in the "do I<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">need more stack" check, but I seed that you have a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">!EnableSegmentedStacks in the Red Zone check. Have you decided not to do it?</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">*) You intend for the runtime to be compatible with the gcc one? Their<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">stack allocating function is called __morestack...</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">[1] <a href="https://github.com/sanjoy/llvm/tree/segmented-stacks">https://github.com/sanjoy/llvm/tree/segmented-stacks</a></font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Cheers,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">Rafael</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Monaco; min-height: 16.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Monaco" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Monaco">------------------------------</font></p> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>