Removing EH support from the old JIT

Rafael EspĂ­ndola rafael.espindola at gmail.com
Tue May 7 05:30:56 PDT 2013


>> Now that MCJIT has support for exception handling, can we delete it
>> from the old JIT? This removes 809 lines of code that is duplicated
>> with the eh frame creation in MC. It should also allow at least one
>> additional cleanup in MachineLocation.
>
> I'm still strongly in favor of this, but I don't speak for any clients of the JIT.  It is probably best to remove this right after 3.3 branches, allowing us to heavily release note that it will go away after 3.3.

Good point. I have added a note saying that MCJIT now supports EH and
that support for it will be removed from the old jjit in 3.4.

> -Chris

Cheers,
Rafael



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