[LLVMdev] Implementing try/catch/finally

Duncan Sands duncan.sands at math.u-psud.fr
Mon Apr 21 00:32:14 PDT 2008


> One approach would be to simply duplicate the code in the 'finally' 
> block for each exit, but that seems sub-optimal. It would be better, I 
> think, to set a state variable before entering the 'finally' block, and 
> then have it do a switch instruction at the end and transfer to the 
> appropriate block.

I think gcc just duplicates the block (see tree-eh.c).  I suggest that
to start with you do the same, because it is simple to do, and then once
everything is working well look into improving the code quality.

Ciao,

Duncan.



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