[LLVMdev] Turning on exception handling codegen

Devang Patel dpatel at apple.com
Fri Aug 24 09:24:29 PDT 2007


On Aug 23, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Duncan Sands wrote:

> Right now llvm-gcc generates exception handling intrinsics,
> but actual eh codegen (--enable-eh) is turned off.  On
> x86-linux, turning it on generates no new failures in the
> testsuite,

yay !

> so how about turning it on?  The problem is
> likely to be PPC which claims to support eh but doesn't
> support it completely yet AFAIK.  I suggest setting
> SupportsExceptionHandling to false for PPC until it is
> fixed.
>
> I think it is important to have eh work in the next
> release, which means turning on eh codegen in the
> near future.  I'd rather turn it on sooner than
> later, so it gets more testing.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Duncan.
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