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From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Chris Lattner <sabre@nondot.org>,
	Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com, Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com>,
	<gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: avoid unnecessary register saves for setjmp
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16325.49098.646932.196135@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311270301180.28662-100000@nondot.org>

Chris Lattner writes:
 > 
 > Zack Weinberg said:

 > > I'm going to take this opportunity to throw in a suggestion I've
 > > made before, which is that setjmp/longjmp should - always, not
 > > just when special variants are used - be converted by the front
 > > end into invocations of the exception-unwinding facility, which
 > > gives us tons more control.

True.  But the obvious problem with this is that it places a burden on
small applications (boot ROMs, say) that might only have a single
setjmp/longjmp.  These would be forced to include the unwinder and all
its baggage just for that.

Andrew.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-27  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-27  9:19 Chris Lattner
2003-11-27  9:21 ` Andrew Haley [this message]
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-22  4:13 Richard Kenner
2003-12-01  3:29 ` Jim Wilson
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
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

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