[LLVMdev] Any plans to add LLVM support for ARM EH EABI ?

[Dennis Taul]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:14:05AM -0700, Jason Kim wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Dennis Taul <dtaul at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> >
> > I am new to LLVM but have perused the code alongside using llvm-gcc
> > and CLANG to build ARM EABI objects.
> >
> > Based on this superficial analysis it appears that LLVM currently does
> > not support the ARM Exception Handling ABI (as defined under the
> > EABI).
> >
> > Can anyone comment on whether plans are in place to remedy this?
> > I did see the discussion regarding work on the MC for ARM. Will this
> > work include emitting the exception handling code/tables compliant to
> > ARM's EH ABI?
> 
> Probably not at first. It may require discussions with the specific
> front end folks (clang, llvm-gcc et al).
> 
> Thanks for bringing it up tho.,
> 
Thanks Jason. 

Is it safe to say the MC work provides a (new) foundation for
implementing ARM EH? Or, is providing ARM EH independent of the ARM-MC
work?

> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Dennis
> >
> >