[LLVMdev] LLVMdev Digest, Vol 85, Issue 50
Chris Lattner
clattner at apple.com
Wed Jul 27 11:17:55 PDT 2011
On Jul 27, 2011, at 11:10 AM, John McCall wrote:
>>
>> 6) it would be nice if the existing UnwindInst could be retained. I wince at naming an instruction
>> "Resume" since in the English language it is so ambiguous (resume normal execution following
>> the conclusion of handing an exception, verses resume throwing an exception). IE cosmetics
>> do matter.
>
> I would be fine with still calling resume "unwind", but the new instruction
> does need to carry extra information.
It should not be called "unwind" since it is different than the old thing. I would be supportive of "resume_unwind" or something like that though.
-Chris
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