[LLVMdev] built-in longjmp and setjmp

[Akira Hatanaka]

After further investigation, I found that it prints 10 when it is compiled
with gcc with option -O3.

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Akira Hatanaka <ahatanak at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems straightforward to implement, if it just needs to be functionally
> correct.
>
> I have another question about setjmp/longjmp. When the following program is
> compiled and run with argument 10 (./a.out 10), should it print 10 or 23? I
> am asking this question because it prints 23 when compiled with gcc and
> prints 10 when compiled with clang. If it is supposed to return 23, it seems
> to me that saving and clobbering registers is not enough to guarantee
> correctness of the compiled program.
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <setjmp.h>
>
> jmp_buf buf;
>
> void __attribute__((noinline))
> sub2 (void)
> {
>
>   longjmp (buf, 1);
> }
>
> int
> main (int argc, char** argv)
> {
>   int n = atoi(argv[1]), r;
>
>   if ((r = setjmp (buf)))
>     {
>       printf("n = %d\n", n);
>       return 0;
>     }
>
>     n += 13;
>     sub2 ();
>
>   return n;
>
> }
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:51 PM, John McCall <rjmccall at apple.com> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 12, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Jim Grosbach wrote:
>> > If you want an automated method, then using the source code re-writer
>> interfaces in clang is probably a reasonable starting place. Just modifying
>> the source code manually is probably easier, though, to be honest.
>> >
>> > As a moderate caveat to all of this, there are some bits of code out
>> there that use these builtins that are very tightly coupled to the compiler
>> (the Linux kernel used to do this, I think, and maybe still does). Those
>> sorts of situations are unlikely to be solved satisfactorily by moving to
>> library calls (performance reasons, usually). The appropriate solution there
>> will be very situation specific and will likely involve refactoring the
>> implementations in question to some degree.
>>
>> Are these intrinsics really prohibitively difficult to implement?  I'm not
>> suggesting that you (or anyone else) particularly needs to do them, but is
>> there more to them than clobbering all registers and then lowering to a
>> quick series of instructions which save/restore the current IP, SP, and
>> (maybe?) FP?  Something seems very wrong if rewriting a custom refactoring
>> tool to turn builtin_setjmp/longjmp into library calls could possibly be
>> simpler than just adding support for these intrinsics to one or two more
>> targets.
>>
>> John.
>>
>
>
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