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Hi Bill, > Please read this proposal and send me your comments, suggestions, and concerns. this proposal looks great to me. Thanks for working on it. I have a few minor comments, see below. > //===-------------------------- > // The 'landingpad' Instruction > // > > The 'landingpad' instruction replaces the current 'llvm.eh.exception' and >

...so on: is a global really needed and not its name? > I'm hesitant to do this because the machinery for printing out the correct global value's representation in assembly is already in the code. So it knows how to print: .long ___gxx_personality_v0+4 at GOTPCREL as opposed to .long L___gxx_personality_v0$non_lazy_ptr-. L___gxx_personality_v0$non_lazy_ptr: .indirect_symbol ___gxx_personality_v0 At least for the Mac, it's much easier to do it the GV way... :-) > Finally, rather than baking cleanups, filters etc into the IR, I suppose the > landingpad instruction could just be: > >...

What? Yet another EH proposal?! This one is different from the others in that I'm planning to start implementing this shortly. But I want your feedback! I've all ready gotten a lot of feedback from Chris, John, Jim, Eric, and many others. Now is your turn! Please read this proposal and send me your comments, suggestions, and concerns. -bw