[cfe-dev] RFC: Support x86 interrupt and exception handlers

[Anton Korobeynikov via cfe-dev]

> For what it's worth, there's precedent for this in clang. We already support
> __attribute__((interrupt)) on ARM and MSP430. Neither of them introduce a
> new calling convention at the Clang level. I think MSP430 adds one at the
> LLVM level, but I don't think it matters.
No. MSP430 interrupts are not using anything different compared to the
ordinary CC.
It only causes additional codegen sugar, so the interrupt handler
could be easily pinned to a particular interrupt vector #

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University