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NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | <h1>Exception Handling in LLVM</h1> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | |
| 16 | <table class="layout" style="width:100%"> |
| 17 | <tr class="layout"> |
| 18 | <td class="left"> |
| 19 | <ul> |
| 20 | <li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a> |
| 21 | <ol> |
| 22 | <li><a href="#itanium">Itanium ABI Zero-cost Exception Handling</a></li> |
Jim Grosbach | 00484d1 | 2009-08-22 01:42:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | <li><a href="#sjlj">Setjmp/Longjmp Exception Handling</a></li> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li> |
| 25 | </ol></li> |
| 26 | <li><a href="#codegen">LLVM Code Generation</a> |
| 27 | <ol> |
| 28 | <li><a href="#throw">Throw</a></li> |
| 29 | <li><a href="#try_catch">Try/Catch</a></li> |
Duncan Sands | 6590b04 | 2007-08-27 15:47:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | <li><a href="#cleanups">Cleanups</a></li> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | <li><a href="#throw_filters">Throw Filters</a></li> |
Duncan Sands | 6590b04 | 2007-08-27 15:47:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 32 | <li><a href="#restrictions">Restrictions</a></li> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | </ol></li> |
Duncan Sands | 8036ca4 | 2007-03-30 12:22:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | <li><a href="#format_common_intrinsics">Exception Handling Intrinsics</a> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | <ol> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | <li><a href="#llvm_eh_typeid_for"><tt>llvm.eh.typeid.for</tt></a></li> |
Jim Grosbach | f957012 | 2009-05-14 00:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | <li><a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_setjmp"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.setjmp</tt></a></li> |
| 38 | <li><a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_longjmp"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.longjmp</tt></a></li> |
Jim Grosbach | 1b747ad | 2009-08-11 00:09:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | <li><a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_lsda"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.lsda</tt></a></li> |
Jim Grosbach | ca752c9 | 2010-01-28 01:45:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | <li><a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_callsite"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.callsite</tt></a></li> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | </ol></li> |
| 42 | <li><a href="#asm">Asm Table Formats</a> |
| 43 | <ol> |
| 44 | <li><a href="#unwind_tables">Exception Handling Frame</a></li> |
| 45 | <li><a href="#exception_tables">Exception Tables</a></li> |
| 46 | </ol></li> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | </ul> |
| 48 | </td> |
| 49 | </tr></table> |
| 50 | |
| 51 | <div class="doc_author"> |
Chris Lattner | f5a3c42 | 2011-11-27 21:02:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | <p>Written by the <a href="http://llvm.org/">LLVM Team</a></p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | </div> |
| 54 | |
| 55 | |
| 56 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | <h2><a name="introduction">Introduction</a></h2> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
| 59 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | |
| 62 | <p>This document is the central repository for all information pertaining to |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | exception handling in LLVM. It describes the format that LLVM exception |
| 64 | handling information takes, which is useful for those interested in creating |
| 65 | front-ends or dealing directly with the information. Further, this document |
| 66 | provides specific examples of what exception handling information is used for |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | in C and C++.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | <h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | <a name="itanium">Itanium ABI Zero-cost Exception Handling</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | </h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 74 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 75 | |
| 76 | <p>Exception handling for most programming languages is designed to recover from |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | conditions that rarely occur during general use of an application. To that |
| 78 | end, exception handling should not interfere with the main flow of an |
| 79 | application's algorithm by performing checkpointing tasks, such as saving the |
| 80 | current pc or register state.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | |
| 82 | <p>The Itanium ABI Exception Handling Specification defines a methodology for |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 83 | providing outlying data in the form of exception tables without inlining |
| 84 | speculative exception handling code in the flow of an application's main |
| 85 | algorithm. Thus, the specification is said to add "zero-cost" to the normal |
| 86 | execution of an application.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 87 | |
| 88 | <p>A more complete description of the Itanium ABI exception handling runtime |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 89 | support of can be found at |
| 90 | <a href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/abi-eh.html">Itanium C++ ABI: |
| 91 | Exception Handling</a>. A description of the exception frame format can be |
| 92 | found at |
| 93 | <a href="http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/ehframechpt.html">Exception |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 94 | Frames</a>, with details of the DWARF 4 specification at |
| 95 | <a href="http://dwarfstd.org/Dwarf4Std.php">DWARF 4 Standard</a>. |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 96 | A description for the C++ exception table formats can be found at |
| 97 | <a href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/exceptions.pdf">Exception Handling |
| 98 | Tables</a>.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | |
| 100 | </div> |
| 101 | |
| 102 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 103 | <h3> |
Jim Grosbach | 00484d1 | 2009-08-22 01:42:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 104 | <a name="sjlj">Setjmp/Longjmp Exception Handling</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 105 | </h3> |
Jim Grosbach | 00484d1 | 2009-08-22 01:42:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | <div> |
Jim Grosbach | 00484d1 | 2009-08-22 01:42:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 108 | |
| 109 | <p>Setjmp/Longjmp (SJLJ) based exception handling uses LLVM intrinsics |
| 110 | <a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_setjmp"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.setjmp</tt></a> and |
| 111 | <a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_longjmp"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.longjmp</tt></a> to |
| 112 | handle control flow for exception handling.</p> |
| 113 | |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 114 | <p>For each function which does exception processing — be |
| 115 | it <tt>try</tt>/<tt>catch</tt> blocks or cleanups — that function |
| 116 | registers itself on a global frame list. When exceptions are unwinding, the |
| 117 | runtime uses this list to identify which functions need processing.<p> |
Jim Grosbach | 00484d1 | 2009-08-22 01:42:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | |
| 119 | <p>Landing pad selection is encoded in the call site entry of the function |
| 120 | context. The runtime returns to the function via |
| 121 | <a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_longjmp"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.longjmp</tt></a>, where |
| 122 | a switch table transfers control to the appropriate landing pad based on |
| 123 | the index stored in the function context.</p> |
| 124 | |
| 125 | <p>In contrast to DWARF exception handling, which encodes exception regions |
| 126 | and frame information in out-of-line tables, SJLJ exception handling |
| 127 | builds and removes the unwind frame context at runtime. This results in |
| 128 | faster exception handling at the expense of slower execution when no |
| 129 | exceptions are thrown. As exceptions are, by their nature, intended for |
| 130 | uncommon code paths, DWARF exception handling is generally preferred to |
| 131 | SJLJ.</p> |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | |
Jim Grosbach | 00484d1 | 2009-08-22 01:42:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | </div> |
| 134 | |
| 135 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | <h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 137 | <a name="overview">Overview</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 138 | </h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 140 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 141 | |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 142 | <p>When an exception is thrown in LLVM code, the runtime does its best to find a |
| 143 | handler suited to processing the circumstance.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | |
| 145 | <p>The runtime first attempts to find an <i>exception frame</i> corresponding to |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | the function where the exception was thrown. If the programming language |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | supports exception handling (e.g. C++), the exception frame contains a |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 148 | reference to an exception table describing how to process the exception. If |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 149 | the language does not support exception handling (e.g. C), or if the |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 150 | exception needs to be forwarded to a prior activation, the exception frame |
| 151 | contains information about how to unwind the current activation and restore |
| 152 | the state of the prior activation. This process is repeated until the |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | exception is handled. If the exception is not handled and no activations |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 154 | remain, then the application is terminated with an appropriate error |
| 155 | message.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 156 | |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 157 | <p>Because different programming languages have different behaviors when |
| 158 | handling exceptions, the exception handling ABI provides a mechanism for |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | supplying <i>personalities</i>. An exception handling personality is defined |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 160 | by way of a <i>personality function</i> (e.g. <tt>__gxx_personality_v0</tt> |
| 161 | in C++), which receives the context of the exception, an <i>exception |
| 162 | structure</i> containing the exception object type and value, and a reference |
| 163 | to the exception table for the current function. The personality function |
| 164 | for the current compile unit is specified in a <i>common exception |
| 165 | frame</i>.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 167 | <p>The organization of an exception table is language dependent. For C++, an |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | exception table is organized as a series of code ranges defining what to do |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 169 | if an exception occurs in that range. Typically, the information associated |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 170 | with a range defines which types of exception objects (using C++ <i>type |
| 171 | info</i>) that are handled in that range, and an associated action that |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | should take place. Actions typically pass control to a <i>landing |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 173 | pad</i>.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 175 | <p>A landing pad corresponds roughly to the code found in the <tt>catch</tt> |
| 176 | portion of a <tt>try</tt>/<tt>catch</tt> sequence. When execution resumes at |
| 177 | a landing pad, it receives an <i>exception structure</i> and a |
| 178 | <i>selector value</i> corresponding to the <i>type</i> of exception |
| 179 | thrown. The selector is then used to determine which <i>catch</i> should |
| 180 | actually process the exception.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 181 | |
| 182 | </div> |
| 183 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | </div> |
| 185 | |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 186 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 187 | <h2> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 188 | <a name="codegen">LLVM Code Generation</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 189 | </h2> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 191 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | <p>From a C++ developer's perspective, exceptions are defined in terms of the |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 194 | <tt>throw</tt> and <tt>try</tt>/<tt>catch</tt> statements. In this section |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 195 | we will describe the implementation of LLVM exception handling in terms of |
| 196 | C++ examples.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | <h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | <a name="throw">Throw</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 201 | </h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 202 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 203 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 204 | |
| 205 | <p>Languages that support exception handling typically provide a <tt>throw</tt> |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 206 | operation to initiate the exception process. Internally, a <tt>throw</tt> |
| 207 | operation breaks down into two steps.</p> |
| 208 | |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | <ol> |
| 210 | <li>A request is made to allocate exception space for an exception structure. |
| 211 | This structure needs to survive beyond the current activation. This |
| 212 | structure will contain the type and value of the object being thrown.</li> |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 214 | <li>A call is made to the runtime to raise the exception, passing the |
| 215 | exception structure as an argument.</li> |
| 216 | </ol> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 217 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 218 | <p>In C++, the allocation of the exception structure is done by the |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 219 | <tt>__cxa_allocate_exception</tt> runtime function. The exception raising is |
| 220 | handled by <tt>__cxa_throw</tt>. The type of the exception is represented |
| 221 | using a C++ RTTI structure.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | |
| 223 | </div> |
| 224 | |
| 225 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 226 | <h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 227 | <a name="try_catch">Try/Catch</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 228 | </h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 230 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 231 | |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 232 | <p>A call within the scope of a <i>try</i> statement can potentially raise an |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 233 | exception. In those circumstances, the LLVM C++ front-end replaces the call |
| 234 | with an <tt>invoke</tt> instruction. Unlike a call, the <tt>invoke</tt> has |
| 235 | two potential continuation points:</p> |
| 236 | |
| 237 | <ol> |
| 238 | <li>where to continue when the call succeeds as per normal, and</li> |
| 239 | |
| 240 | <li>where to continue if the call raises an exception, either by a throw or |
| 241 | the unwinding of a throw</li> |
| 242 | </ol> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 243 | |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 244 | <p>The term used to define a the place where an <tt>invoke</tt> continues after |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | an exception is called a <i>landing pad</i>. LLVM landing pads are |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 246 | conceptually alternative function entry points where an exception structure |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 247 | reference and a type info index are passed in as arguments. The landing pad |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 248 | saves the exception structure reference and then proceeds to select the catch |
| 249 | block that corresponds to the type info of the exception object.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 250 | |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 251 | <p>The LLVM <a href="LangRef.html#i_landingpad"><tt>landingpad</tt> |
| 252 | instruction</a> is used to convey information about the landing pad to the |
| 253 | back end. For C++, the <tt>landingpad</tt> instruction returns a pointer and |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 254 | integer pair corresponding to the pointer to the <i>exception structure</i> |
| 255 | and the <i>selector value</i> respectively.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 256 | |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 257 | <p>The <tt>landingpad</tt> instruction takes a reference to the personality |
| 258 | function to be used for this <tt>try</tt>/<tt>catch</tt> sequence. The |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 259 | remainder of the instruction is a list of <i>cleanup</i>, <i>catch</i>, |
| 260 | and <i>filter</i> clauses. The exception is tested against the clauses |
| 261 | sequentially from first to last. The selector value is a positive number if |
| 262 | the exception matched a type info, a negative number if it matched a filter, |
Bill Wendling | 2477102 | 2011-09-27 10:37:28 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 263 | and zero if it matched a cleanup. If nothing is matched, the behavior of |
Bill Wendling | a69d998 | 2011-09-26 21:10:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 264 | the program is <a href="#restrictions">undefined</a>. If a type info matched, |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 265 | then the selector value is the index of the type info in the exception table, |
| 266 | which can be obtained using the |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 267 | <a href="#llvm_eh_typeid_for"><tt>llvm.eh.typeid.for</tt></a> intrinsic.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 268 | |
| 269 | <p>Once the landing pad has the type info selector, the code branches to the |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 270 | code for the first catch. The catch then checks the value of the type info |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 271 | selector against the index of type info for that catch. Since the type info |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 272 | index is not known until all the type infos have been gathered in the |
| 273 | backend, the catch code must call the |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 274 | <a href="#llvm_eh_typeid_for"><tt>llvm.eh.typeid.for</tt></a> intrinsic to |
| 275 | determine the index for a given type info. If the catch fails to match the |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 276 | selector then control is passed on to the next catch.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 277 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 278 | <p>Finally, the entry and exit of catch code is bracketed with calls to |
| 279 | <tt>__cxa_begin_catch</tt> and <tt>__cxa_end_catch</tt>.</p> |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 280 | |
| 281 | <ul> |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 282 | <li><tt>__cxa_begin_catch</tt> takes an exception structure reference as an |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 283 | argument and returns the value of the exception object.</li> |
| 284 | |
Bill Wendling | 169e1b0 | 2009-09-10 22:14:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 285 | <li><tt>__cxa_end_catch</tt> takes no arguments. This function:<br><br> |
| 286 | <ol> |
Bill Wendling | 808b9ce | 2009-09-10 22:12:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 287 | <li>Locates the most recently caught exception and decrements its handler |
| 288 | count,</li> |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 289 | <li>Removes the exception from the <i>caught</i> stack if the handler |
| 290 | count goes to zero, and</li> |
| 291 | <li>Destroys the exception if the handler count goes to zero and the |
Bill Wendling | 808b9ce | 2009-09-10 22:12:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 292 | exception was not re-thrown by throw.</li> |
Bill Wendling | 169e1b0 | 2009-09-10 22:14:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 293 | </ol> |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 294 | <p><b>Note:</b> a rethrow from within the catch may replace this call with |
Bill Wendling | 808b9ce | 2009-09-10 22:12:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 295 | a <tt>__cxa_rethrow</tt>.</p></li> |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 296 | </ul> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 297 | |
| 298 | </div> |
| 299 | |
| 300 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 301 | <h3> |
Duncan Sands | 6590b04 | 2007-08-27 15:47:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | <a name="cleanups">Cleanups</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 303 | </h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 304 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 305 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 306 | |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 307 | <p>A cleanup is extra code which needs to be run as part of unwinding a scope. |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 308 | C++ destructors are a typical example, but other languages and language |
| 309 | extensions provide a variety of different kinds of cleanups. In general, a |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 310 | landing pad may need to run arbitrary amounts of cleanup code before actually |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 311 | entering a catch block. To indicate the presence of cleanups, a |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 312 | <a href="LangRef.html#i_landingpad"><tt>landingpad</tt> instruction</a> |
| 313 | should have a <i>cleanup</i> clause. Otherwise, the unwinder will not stop at |
| 314 | the landing pad if there are no catches or filters that require it to.</p> |
John McCall | d7c1086 | 2011-05-28 07:45:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 315 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 316 | <p><b>Note:</b> Do not allow a new exception to propagate out of the execution |
| 317 | of a cleanup. This can corrupt the internal state of the unwinder. |
| 318 | Different languages describe different high-level semantics for these |
| 319 | situations: for example, C++ requires that the process be terminated, whereas |
| 320 | Ada cancels both exceptions and throws a third.</p> |
John McCall | d7c1086 | 2011-05-28 07:45:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 322 | <p>When all cleanups are finished, if the exception is not handled by the |
| 323 | current function, resume unwinding by calling the |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 324 | <a href="LangRef.html#i_resume"><tt>resume</tt> instruction</a>, passing in |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 325 | the result of the <tt>landingpad</tt> instruction for the original landing |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | pad.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 327 | |
| 328 | </div> |
| 329 | |
| 330 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 331 | <h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 332 | <a name="throw_filters">Throw Filters</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 333 | </h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 335 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 336 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | <p>C++ allows the specification of which exception types may be thrown from a |
| 338 | function. To represent this, a top level landing pad may exist to filter out |
| 339 | invalid types. To express this in LLVM code the |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 340 | <a href="LangRef.html#i_landingpad"><tt>landingpad</tt> instruction</a> will |
| 341 | have a filter clause. The clause consists of an array of type infos. |
| 342 | <tt>landingpad</tt> will return a negative value if the exception does not |
| 343 | match any of the type infos. If no match is found then a call |
| 344 | to <tt>__cxa_call_unexpected</tt> should be made, otherwise |
| 345 | <tt>_Unwind_Resume</tt>. Each of these functions requires a reference to the |
| 346 | exception structure. Note that the most general form of a |
| 347 | <a href="LangRef.html#i_landingpad"><tt>landingpad</tt> instruction</a> can |
| 348 | have any number of catch, cleanup, and filter clauses (though having more |
| 349 | than one cleanup is pointless). The LLVM C++ front-end can generate such |
| 350 | <a href="LangRef.html#i_landingpad"><tt>landingpad</tt> instructions</a> due |
| 351 | to inlining creating nested exception handling scopes.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 352 | |
| 353 | </div> |
| 354 | |
| 355 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 356 | <h3> |
Duncan Sands | 6590b04 | 2007-08-27 15:47:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 357 | <a name="restrictions">Restrictions</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 358 | </h3> |
Duncan Sands | 6590b04 | 2007-08-27 15:47:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 359 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 360 | <div> |
Duncan Sands | 6590b04 | 2007-08-27 15:47:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 361 | |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | <p>The unwinder delegates the decision of whether to stop in a call frame to |
Bill Wendling | 100a371 | 2011-09-27 20:16:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 363 | that call frame's language-specific personality function. Not all unwinders |
| 364 | guarantee that they will stop to perform cleanups. For example, the GNU C++ |
| 365 | unwinder doesn't do so unless the exception is actually caught somewhere |
| 366 | further up the stack.</p> |
John McCall | d7c1086 | 2011-05-28 07:45:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 367 | |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 368 | <p>In order for inlining to behave correctly, landing pads must be prepared to |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 369 | handle selector results that they did not originally advertise. Suppose that |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 370 | a function catches exceptions of type <tt>A</tt>, and it's inlined into a |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 371 | function that catches exceptions of type <tt>B</tt>. The inliner will update |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 372 | the <tt>landingpad</tt> instruction for the inlined landing pad to include |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 373 | the fact that <tt>B</tt> is also caught. If that landing pad assumes that it |
| 374 | will only be entered to catch an <tt>A</tt>, it's in for a rude awakening. |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 375 | Consequently, landing pads must test for the selector results they understand |
| 376 | and then resume exception propagation with the |
| 377 | <a href="LangRef.html#i_resume"><tt>resume</tt> instruction</a> if none of |
| 378 | the conditions match.</p> |
Duncan Sands | 6590b04 | 2007-08-27 15:47:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 379 | |
| 380 | </div> |
| 381 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | </div> |
| 383 | |
Duncan Sands | 6590b04 | 2007-08-27 15:47:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 385 | <h2> |
Duncan Sands | 8036ca4 | 2007-03-30 12:22:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 386 | <a name="format_common_intrinsics">Exception Handling Intrinsics</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 387 | </h2> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 388 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 389 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 390 | |
Bill Wendling | 4a065dd | 2011-09-20 01:08:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 391 | <p>In addition to the |
| 392 | <a href="LangRef.html#i_landingpad"><tt>landingpad</tt></a> and |
| 393 | <a href="LangRef.html#i_resume"><tt>resume</tt></a> instructions, LLVM uses |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 394 | several intrinsic functions (name prefixed with <i><tt>llvm.eh</tt></i>) to |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 395 | provide exception handling information at various points in generated |
| 396 | code.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 397 | |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 398 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 399 | <h4> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 400 | <a name="llvm_eh_typeid_for">llvm.eh.typeid.for</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 401 | </h4> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 402 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 403 | <div> |
Bill Wendling | bf230bf | 2009-08-15 20:08:04 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 404 | |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 405 | <pre> |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 406 | i32 @llvm.eh.typeid.for(i8* %type_info) |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 407 | </pre> |
| 408 | |
| 409 | <p>This intrinsic returns the type info index in the exception table of the |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | current function. This value can be used to compare against the result |
Bill Wendling | 3c05196 | 2011-09-20 01:14:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 411 | of <a href="LangRef.html#i_landingpad"><tt>landingpad</tt> instruction</a>. |
| 412 | The single argument is a reference to a type info.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 413 | |
| 414 | </div> |
| 415 | |
| 416 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 417 | <h4> |
Jim Grosbach | f957012 | 2009-05-14 00:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 418 | <a name="llvm_eh_sjlj_setjmp">llvm.eh.sjlj.setjmp</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 419 | </h4> |
Jim Grosbach | f957012 | 2009-05-14 00:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 420 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 421 | <div> |
Bill Wendling | 3cf4ffd | 2009-08-15 20:07:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 422 | |
Jim Grosbach | f957012 | 2009-05-14 00:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 423 | <pre> |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 424 | i32 @llvm.eh.sjlj.setjmp(i8* %setjmp_buf) |
Jim Grosbach | f957012 | 2009-05-14 00:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 425 | </pre> |
| 426 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 427 | <p>For SJLJ based exception handling, this intrinsic forces register saving for |
| 428 | the current function and stores the address of the following instruction for |
| 429 | use as a destination address |
| 430 | by <a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_longjmp"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.longjmp</tt></a>. The |
| 431 | buffer format and the overall functioning of this intrinsic is compatible |
| 432 | with the GCC <tt>__builtin_setjmp</tt> implementation allowing code built |
| 433 | with the clang and GCC to interoperate.</p> |
Jim Grosbach | f957012 | 2009-05-14 00:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 434 | |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 435 | <p>The single parameter is a pointer to a five word buffer in which the calling |
| 436 | context is saved. The front end places the frame pointer in the first word, |
| 437 | and the target implementation of this intrinsic should place the destination |
| 438 | address for a |
| 439 | <a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_longjmp"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.longjmp</tt></a> in the |
| 440 | second word. The following three words are available for use in a |
| 441 | target-specific manner.</p> |
Jim Grosbach | f957012 | 2009-05-14 00:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 442 | |
Benjamin Kramer | e15192b | 2009-08-05 15:42:44 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 443 | </div> |
| 444 | |
Jim Grosbach | f957012 | 2009-05-14 00:46:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 445 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 446 | <h4> |
Jim Grosbach | 90346e2 | 2010-05-26 16:21:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 447 | <a name="llvm_eh_sjlj_longjmp">llvm.eh.sjlj.longjmp</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 448 | </h4> |
Jim Grosbach | 90346e2 | 2010-05-26 16:21:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 449 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 450 | <div> |
Jim Grosbach | 90346e2 | 2010-05-26 16:21:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 451 | |
| 452 | <pre> |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 453 | void @llvm.eh.sjlj.longjmp(i8* %setjmp_buf) |
Jim Grosbach | 90346e2 | 2010-05-26 16:21:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 454 | </pre> |
| 455 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 456 | <p>For SJLJ based exception handling, the <tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.longjmp</tt> |
| 457 | intrinsic is used to implement <tt>__builtin_longjmp()</tt>. The single |
| 458 | parameter is a pointer to a buffer populated |
| 459 | by <a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_setjmp"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.setjmp</tt></a>. The frame |
| 460 | pointer and stack pointer are restored from the buffer, then control is |
| 461 | transferred to the destination address.</p> |
Jim Grosbach | 90346e2 | 2010-05-26 16:21:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 462 | |
| 463 | </div> |
| 464 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 465 | <h4> |
Jim Grosbach | 1b747ad | 2009-08-11 00:09:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 466 | <a name="llvm_eh_sjlj_lsda">llvm.eh.sjlj.lsda</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 467 | </h4> |
Jim Grosbach | 1b747ad | 2009-08-11 00:09:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 468 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 469 | <div> |
Bill Wendling | 3cf4ffd | 2009-08-15 20:07:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 470 | |
Jim Grosbach | 1b747ad | 2009-08-11 00:09:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 471 | <pre> |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 472 | i8* @llvm.eh.sjlj.lsda() |
Jim Grosbach | 1b747ad | 2009-08-11 00:09:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 473 | </pre> |
| 474 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 475 | <p>For SJLJ based exception handling, the <tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.lsda</tt> intrinsic |
| 476 | returns the address of the Language Specific Data Area (LSDA) for the current |
| 477 | function. The SJLJ front-end code stores this address in the exception |
| 478 | handling function context for use by the runtime.</p> |
Jim Grosbach | 1b747ad | 2009-08-11 00:09:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 479 | |
| 480 | </div> |
| 481 | |
| 482 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 483 | <h4> |
Jim Grosbach | ca752c9 | 2010-01-28 01:45:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 484 | <a name="llvm_eh_sjlj_callsite">llvm.eh.sjlj.callsite</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 485 | </h4> |
Jim Grosbach | ca752c9 | 2010-01-28 01:45:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 486 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 487 | <div> |
Jim Grosbach | ca752c9 | 2010-01-28 01:45:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 488 | |
| 489 | <pre> |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 490 | void @llvm.eh.sjlj.callsite(i32 %call_site_num) |
Jim Grosbach | ca752c9 | 2010-01-28 01:45:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 491 | </pre> |
| 492 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 493 | <p>For SJLJ based exception handling, the <tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.callsite</tt> |
| 494 | intrinsic identifies the callsite value associated with the |
| 495 | following <tt>invoke</tt> instruction. This is used to ensure that landing |
| 496 | pad entries in the LSDA are generated in matching order.</p> |
Jim Grosbach | ca752c9 | 2010-01-28 01:45:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | |
| 498 | </div> |
| 499 | |
| 500 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 501 | <h2> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 502 | <a name="asm">Asm Table Formats</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 503 | </h2> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 504 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 505 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 506 | |
| 507 | <p>There are two tables that are used by the exception handling runtime to |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 508 | determine which actions should be taken when an exception is thrown.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 509 | |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 510 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 511 | <h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 512 | <a name="unwind_tables">Exception Handling Frame</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 513 | </h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 514 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 516 | |
| 517 | <p>An exception handling frame <tt>eh_frame</tt> is very similar to the unwind |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 518 | frame used by DWARF debug info. The frame contains all the information |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 519 | necessary to tear down the current frame and restore the state of the prior |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 520 | frame. There is an exception handling frame for each function in a compile |
Bill Wendling | c4f661e | 2009-08-15 08:56:09 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 521 | unit, plus a common exception handling frame that defines information common |
| 522 | to all functions in the unit.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 523 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 524 | <!-- Todo - Table details here. --> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 525 | |
| 526 | </div> |
| 527 | |
| 528 | <!-- ======================================================================= --> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 529 | <h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 530 | <a name="exception_tables">Exception Tables</a> |
NAKAMURA Takumi | 05d0265 | 2011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 531 | </h3> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 532 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 533 | <div> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 534 | |
| 535 | <p>An exception table contains information about what actions to take when an |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 536 | exception is thrown in a particular part of a function's code. There is one |
| 537 | exception table per function, except leaf functions and functions that have |
| 538 | calls only to non-throwing functions. They do not need an exception |
| 539 | table.</p> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 540 | |
Bill Wendling | 2a6b073 | 2011-09-26 21:06:33 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 541 | <!-- Todo - Table details here. --> |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 542 | |
| 543 | </div> |
| 544 | |
NAKAMURA Takumi | f5af6ad | 2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 545 | </div> |
| 546 | |
Jim Laskey | d0d39b6 | 2007-03-14 19:29:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 547 | <!-- *********************************************************************** --> |
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