Summary:
Initially, these intrinsics seemed like part of a family of "frame"
related intrinsics, but now I think that's more confusing than helpful.
Initially, the LangRef specified that this would create a new kind of
allocation that would be allocated at a fixed offset from the frame
pointer (EBP/RBP). We ended up dropping that design, and leaving the
stack frame layout alone.
These intrinsics are really about sharing local stack allocations, not
frame pointers. I intend to go further and add an `llvm.localaddress()`
intrinsic that returns whatever register (EBP, ESI, ESP, RBX) is being
used to address locals, which should not be confused with the frame
pointer.
Naming suggestions at this point are welcome, I'm happy to re-run sed.
Reviewers: majnemer, nicholas
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D11011
llvm-svn: 241633
We don't need to represent UnwindHelp in IR. Instead, we can use the
knowledge that we are emitting the parent function to decide if we
should create the UnwindHelp stack object.
llvm-svn: 234061
This makes it possible to use the same representation of llvm.eh.actions
in outlined handlers as we use in the parent function because i32's are
just constants that can be copied freely between functions.
I had to add a sentinel alloca to the list of child allocas so that we
don't try to sink the catch object into the handler. Normally, one would
use nullptr for this kind of thing, but TinyPtrVector doesn't support
null elements. More than that, it's elements have to have a suitable
alignment. Therefore, I settled on this for my sentinel:
AllocaInst *getCatchObjectSentinel() {
return static_cast<AllocaInst *>(nullptr) + 1;
}
llvm-svn: 233947
This lets us catch exceptions in simple cases.
N.B. Things that do not work include (but are not limited to):
- Throwing from within a catch handler.
- Catching an object with a named catch parameter.
- 'CatchHigh' is fictitious, we aren't sure of its purpose.
- We aren't entirely efficient with regards to the number of EH states
that we generate.
- IP-to-State tables are sensitive to the order of emission.
llvm-svn: 233767
We don't have any logic to emit those tables yet, so the SDAG lowering
of this intrinsic is just a stub. We can see the intrinsic in the
prepared IR, though.
llvm-svn: 233354
We don't have any logic to emit those tables yet, so the sdag lowering
of this intrinsic is just a stub. We can see the intrinsic in the
prepared IR, though.
llvm-svn: 233209
These docs *don't* match the way WinEHPrepare uses them yet, and
verifier support isn't implemented either. The implementation will come
after the documentation text is reviewed and agreed upon.
llvm-svn: 232003
Ultimately, __CxxFrameHandler3 needs us to put a stack offset in a
table, and it will take responsibility for copying the exception object
into that slot. Modelling the exception object as an SSA value returned
by begincatch isn't going to work in general, so make it use an output
parameter.
Reviewers: andrew.w.kaylor
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7920
llvm-svn: 231086
The non-SJLJ and SJLJ intrinsics are generated by the frontend and
backend respectively.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3010
llvm-svn: 205017
The original text is very terse, so I've expanded on it.
Specifically, in the original text:
* "The selector value is a positive number if the exception matched a
type info" -- It wasn't clear that this meant "if the exception
matched a 'catch' clause".
* "If nothing is matched, the behavior of the program is
`undefined`_." -- It's actually implementation-defined in C++
rather than undefined, as the new text explains.
llvm-svn: 202209
Before we learned about :doc:, we used :ref: and put a dummy link at the
top of each page. Don't do that anymore.
This fixes PR14891 as a special case.
llvm-svn: 172162
