[LLVMdev] Newbie questions

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Tue Apr 25 11:59:36 PDT 2006


On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Another question: does LLVM know about or handle signal frames? What
> if code wants to unwind across a signal frame? This is another thing
> that would be required for Java if e.g. you wanted to detect null
> pointer access via signals. Note setjmp/longjmp works OK across signal
> frames.

This is up to the unwinding library implementation for the target in 
question.  LLVM will support it if your unwinder library supports it.

-Chris

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