[LLVMdev] x86 unwind support[MESSAGE NOT SCANNED]
Mark Shannon
marks at dcs.gla.ac.uk
Mon Jul 20 05:15:47 PDT 2009
Andrew Haley wrote:
> Mark Shannon wrote:
>> Nick Johnson wrote:
>>>> probably there should be a switch to choose whether codegen should turn
>>>> unwind/invoke into dwarf or setjmp/longjmp style code.
>> It seems to me that there is an implicit, and undocumented, assumption
>> that unwinding needs to handle stack-allocated objects.
>>
>> In languages without stack-allocated objects (ie. most languages that
>> support exceptions) there is no need to unwind frame-by-frame, the
>> unwind simply needs to make a single jump to the invoke instruction and
>> restore the context (which in x86 is just 6 registers).
>
> Not quite. It's also necessary to execute all the pending POSIX
> pthread_cleanup_pop() actions.
POSIX pthread_cleanup_pop() can only be called directly from C++/C.
C doesn't haven't exceptions.
So yet again, this is a C++ issue.
>
>> It is possible to implement invoke/unwind in such a way that both invoke
>> *and* unwind are fast, when unwind just unwinds and doesn't perform
>> any magic behind-the-scenes operations.
>
> I don't think so. Not for pthreads, anyway.
This is C++ specific.
>
> Andrew.
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