From: Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: avoid unnecessary register saves for setjmp
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 09:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1069490758.1024.191.camel@leaf.tuliptree.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031122030808.GA23061@nevyn.them.org>
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 19:08, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Here's the difficulty: changing the size of jmp_buf.
That is a good point. Still, we shouldn't penalize targets that have
defined setjmp correctly. So I suggest using NON_SAVING_SETJMP for
this. This will do what you want if you define it for your target.
I'll go ahead and fix NON_SAVING_SETJMP to make it usable.
> Sure - but that assumes that all unused call-saved registers are
> restored by the setjmp. So then it is required to save registers to
> get reasonable behavior.
You are confusing two different issues here. setjmp is not required to
restore call-used registers. Thus any value stored in a register in
this function may not be restored when longjmp is called. This is why
the C language standard says that local automatic non-volatile variables
may not be restored by longjmp. However, setjmp is required to restore
the original context, and that means call-saved registers must be
restored. A setjmp call is not allowed to clobber locals in the parent
function, which is what would happen if call-saved registers were not
restored.
--
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-22 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-21 5:54 Jim Wilson
2003-11-21 18:39 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-22 0:22 ` Jim Wilson
2003-11-22 3:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-22 9:06 ` Jim Wilson [this message]
2003-11-22 14:37 ` Richard Earnshaw
2003-11-22 16:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-27 9:11 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-11-27 17:11 ` Andrew Pinski
2003-11-27 18:23 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-11-28 5:15 ` Geert Bosch
2003-11-28 11:14 ` Richard Earnshaw
2003-11-28 14:02 ` Richard Earnshaw
2003-11-21 20:14 ` Geoff Keating
2003-11-22 0:20 ` Jim Wilson
2003-11-30 9:23 ` Jim Wilson
2003-11-22 4:13 Richard Kenner
2003-12-01 3:29 ` Jim Wilson
2003-11-27 9:19 Chris Lattner
2003-11-27 9:21 ` Andrew Haley
2003-11-27 9:22 ` Chris Lattner
2003-11-27 9:39 ` Andrew Haley
2003-11-27 9:43 ` Chris Lattner
2003-11-27 10:14 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-11-27 10:15 ` Chris Lattner
2003-11-27 11:01 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-11-27 20:28 ` Chris Lattner
2003-11-27 20:51 ` Gabriel Dos Reis
2003-11-27 15:41 ` Jan Vroonhof
2003-11-27 16:23 ` Jan Vroonhof
2003-11-27 10:31 ` Andrew Haley
2003-11-27 10:53 ` Zack Weinberg
[not found] <5cad8ef043da68f2a3332f00bd6a186a3fc6195b@mail.esmertec.com>
2003-11-27 20:44 ` Chris Lattner
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