[LLVMdev] Adding safe-point code generation

Gordon Henriksen gordonhenriksen at me.com
Tue Jun 23 06:59:04 PDT 2009


On 2009-06-23, at 07:18, Gordon Henriksen wrote:

> Actually, this distinction between safe points for inserting code  
> and safe points for frame maps is probably is a critical design  
> issue for your use case. Our current definition of a safe point is  
> at the return address of a call instruction, which is precisely  
> what's required to call the stack. This is NOT the location where  
> you want to add a call to your runtime.

“... precisely what's required to walk the stack ...”, rather.

— Gordon



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