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<div class="doc_title">Exception Handling in LLVM</div>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#itanium">Itanium ABI Zero-cost Exception Handling</a></li>
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<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
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<li><a href="#codegen">LLVM Code Generation</a>
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<li><a href="#throw">Throw</a></li>
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<li><a href="#try_catch">Try/Catch</a></li>
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<li><a href="#cleanups">Cleanups</a></li>
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<li><a href="#throw_filters">Throw Filters</a></li>
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<li><a href="#restrictions">Restrictions</a></li>
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<li><a href="#format_common_intrinsics">Exception Handling Intrinsics</a>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#llvm_eh_exception"><tt>llvm.eh.exception</tt></a></li>
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<li><a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a></li>
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<li><a href="#llvm_eh_typeid_for"><tt>llvm.eh.typeid.for</tt></a></li>
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<li><a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_setjmp"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.setjmp</tt></a></li>
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<li><a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_longjmp"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.longjmp</tt></a></li>
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<li><a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_lsda"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.lsda</tt></a></li>
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<li><a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_callsite"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.callsite</tt></a></li>
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<li><a href="#asm">Asm Table Formats</a>
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<li><a href="#unwind_tables">Exception Handling Frame</a></li>
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<li><a href="#exception_tables">Exception Tables</a></li>
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<p>Written by <a href="mailto:jlaskey@mac.com">Jim Laskey</a></p>
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<div class="doc_section"><a name="introduction">Introduction</a></div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>This document is the central repository for all information pertaining to
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exception handling in LLVM. It describes the format that LLVM exception
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handling information takes, which is useful for those interested in creating
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front-ends or dealing directly with the information. Further, this document
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provides specific examples of what exception handling information is used for
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in C/C++.</p>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="itanium">Itanium ABI Zero-cost Exception Handling</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>Exception handling for most programming languages is designed to recover from
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conditions that rarely occur during general use of an application. To that
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end, exception handling should not interfere with the main flow of an
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application's algorithm by performing checkpointing tasks, such as saving the
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current pc or register state.</p>
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<p>The Itanium ABI Exception Handling Specification defines a methodology for
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providing outlying data in the form of exception tables without inlining
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speculative exception handling code in the flow of an application's main
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algorithm. Thus, the specification is said to add "zero-cost" to the normal
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execution of an application.</p>
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<p>A more complete description of the Itanium ABI exception handling runtime
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support of can be found at
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<a href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/abi-eh.html">Itanium C++ ABI:
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Exception Handling</a>. A description of the exception frame format can be
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found at
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<a href="http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_3.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/ehframechpt.html">Exception
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Frames</a>, with details of the DWARF 3 specification at
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<a href="http://www.eagercon.com/dwarf/dwarf3std.htm">DWARF 3 Standard</a>.
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A description for the C++ exception table formats can be found at
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<a href="http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/exceptions.pdf">Exception Handling
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Tables</a>.</p>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="overview">Overview</a>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>When an exception is thrown in LLVM code, the runtime does its best to find a
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handler suited to processing the circumstance.</p>
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<p>The runtime first attempts to find an <i>exception frame</i> corresponding to
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the function where the exception was thrown. If the programming language
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(e.g. C++) supports exception handling, the exception frame contains a
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reference to an exception table describing how to process the exception. If
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the language (e.g. C) does not support exception handling, or if the
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exception needs to be forwarded to a prior activation, the exception frame
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contains information about how to unwind the current activation and restore
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the state of the prior activation. This process is repeated until the
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exception is handled. If the exception is not handled and no activations
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remain, then the application is terminated with an appropriate error
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message.</p>
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<p>Because different programming languages have different behaviors when
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handling exceptions, the exception handling ABI provides a mechanism for
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supplying <i>personalities.</i> An exception handling personality is defined
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by way of a <i>personality function</i> (e.g. <tt>__gxx_personality_v0</tt>
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in C++), which receives the context of the exception, an <i>exception
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structure</i> containing the exception object type and value, and a reference
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to the exception table for the current function. The personality function
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for the current compile unit is specified in a <i>common exception
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frame</i>.</p>
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<p>The organization of an exception table is language dependent. For C++, an
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exception table is organized as a series of code ranges defining what to do
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if an exception occurs in that range. Typically, the information associated
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with a range defines which types of exception objects (using C++ <i>type
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info</i>) that are handled in that range, and an associated action that
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should take place. Actions typically pass control to a <i>landing
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pad</i>.</p>
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<p>A landing pad corresponds to the code found in the <i>catch</i> portion of
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a <i>try</i>/<i>catch</i> sequence. When execution resumes at a landing
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pad, it receives the exception structure and a selector corresponding to
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the <i>type</i> of exception thrown. The selector is then used to determine
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which <i>catch</i> should actually process the exception.</p>
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<div class="doc_section">
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<a name="codegen">LLVM Code Generation</a>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>At the time of this writing, only C++ exception handling support is available
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in LLVM. So the remainder of this document will be somewhat C++-centric.</p>
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<p>From the C++ developers perspective, exceptions are defined in terms of the
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<tt>throw</tt> and <tt>try</tt>/<tt>catch</tt> statements. In this section
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we will describe the implementation of LLVM exception handling in terms of
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C++ examples.</p>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="throw">Throw</a>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>Languages that support exception handling typically provide a <tt>throw</tt>
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operation to initiate the exception process. Internally, a throw operation
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breaks down into two steps. First, a request is made to allocate exception
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space for an exception structure. This structure needs to survive beyond the
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current activation. This structure will contain the type and value of the
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object being thrown. Second, a call is made to the runtime to raise the
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exception, passing the exception structure as an argument.</p>
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<p>In C++, the allocation of the exception structure is done by
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the <tt>__cxa_allocate_exception</tt> runtime function. The exception
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raising is handled by <tt>__cxa_throw</tt>. The type of the exception is
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represented using a C++ RTTI structure.</p>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="try_catch">Try/Catch</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>A call within the scope of a <i>try</i> statement can potentially raise an
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exception. In those circumstances, the LLVM C++ front-end replaces the call
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with an <tt>invoke</tt> instruction. Unlike a call, the <tt>invoke</tt> has
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two potential continuation points: where to continue when the call succeeds
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as per normal; and where to continue if the call raises an exception, either
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by a throw or the unwinding of a throw.</p>
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<p>The term used to define a the place where an <tt>invoke</tt> continues after
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an exception is called a <i>landing pad</i>. LLVM landing pads are
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conceptually alternative function entry points where an exception structure
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reference and a type info index are passed in as arguments. The landing pad
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saves the exception structure reference and then proceeds to select the catch
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block that corresponds to the type info of the exception object.</p>
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<p>Two LLVM intrinsic functions are used to convey information about the landing
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pad to the back end.</p>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#llvm_eh_exception"><tt>llvm.eh.exception</tt></a> takes no
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arguments and returns a pointer to the exception structure. This only
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returns a sensible value if called after an <tt>invoke</tt> has branched
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to a landing pad. Due to code generation limitations, it must currently
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be called in the landing pad itself.</li>
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<li><a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a> takes a minimum
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of three arguments. The first argument is the reference to the exception
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structure. The second argument is a reference to the personality function
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to be used for this <tt>try</tt>/<tt>catch</tt> sequence. Each of the
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remaining arguments is either a reference to the type info for
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a <tt>catch</tt> statement, a <a href="#throw_filters">filter</a>
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expression, or the number zero (<tt>0</tt>) representing
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a <a href="#cleanups">cleanup</a>. The exception is tested against the
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arguments sequentially from first to last. The result of
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the <a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a> is a
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positive number if the exception matched a type info, a negative number if
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it matched a filter, and zero if it matched a cleanup. If nothing is
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matched, the behaviour of the program
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is <a href="#restrictions">undefined</a>. This only returns a sensible
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value if called after an <tt>invoke</tt> has branched to a landing pad.
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Due to codegen limitations, it must currently be called in the landing pad
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itself. If a type info matched, then the selector value is the index of
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the type info in the exception table, which can be obtained using the
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<a href="#llvm_eh_typeid_for"><tt>llvm.eh.typeid.for</tt></a>
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intrinsic.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>Once the landing pad has the type info selector, the code branches to the
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code for the first catch. The catch then checks the value of the type info
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selector against the index of type info for that catch. Since the type info
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index is not known until all the type info have been gathered in the backend,
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the catch code will call the
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<a href="#llvm_eh_typeid_for"><tt>llvm.eh.typeid.for</tt></a> intrinsic
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to determine the index for a given type info. If the catch fails to match
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the selector then control is passed on to the next catch. Note: Since the
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landing pad will not be used if there is no match in the list of type info on
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the call to <a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a>, then
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neither the last catch nor <i>catch all</i> need to perform the check
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against the selector.</p>
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<p>Finally, the entry and exit of catch code is bracketed with calls
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to <tt>__cxa_begin_catch</tt> and <tt>__cxa_end_catch</tt>.</p>
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<ul>
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<li><tt>__cxa_begin_catch</tt> takes a exception structure reference as an
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argument and returns the value of the exception object.</li>
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<li><tt>__cxa_end_catch</tt> takes a exception structure reference as an
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argument. This function clears the exception from the exception space.
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Note: a rethrow from within the catch may replace this call with
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a <tt>__cxa_rethrow</tt>.</li>
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</ul>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="cleanups">Cleanups</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>To handle destructors and cleanups in <tt>try</tt> code, control may not run
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directly from a landing pad to the first catch. Control may actually flow
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from the landing pad to clean up code and then to the first catch. Since the
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required clean up for each <tt>invoke</tt> in a <tt>try</tt> may be different
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(e.g. intervening constructor), there may be several landing pads for a given
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try. If cleanups need to be run, the number zero should be passed as the
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last <a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a> argument.
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However for C++ a <tt>null i8*</tt> <b><a href="#restrictions">must</a></b>
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be passed instead.</p>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="throw_filters">Throw Filters</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>C++ allows the specification of which exception types can be thrown from a
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function. To represent this a top level landing pad may exist to filter out
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invalid types. To express this in LLVM code the landing pad will
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call <a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a>. The
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arguments are a reference to the exception structure, a reference to the
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personality function, the length of the filter expression (the number of type
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infos plus one), followed by the type infos themselves.
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<a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a> will return a
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negative value if the exception does not match any of the type infos. If no
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match is found then a call to <tt>__cxa_call_unexpected</tt> should be made,
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otherwise <tt>_Unwind_Resume</tt>. Each of these functions requires a
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reference to the exception structure. Note that the most general form of an
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<a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a> call can contain
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any number of type infos, filter expressions and cleanups (though having more
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than one cleanup is pointless). The LLVM C++ front-end can generate such
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<a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a> calls due to
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inlining creating nested exception handling scopes.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="restrictions">Restrictions</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>The semantics of the invoke instruction require that any exception that
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unwinds through an invoke call should result in a branch to the invoke's
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unwind label. However such a branch will only happen if the
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<a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a> matches. Thus in
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order to ensure correct operation, the front-end must only generate
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<a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a> calls that are
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guaranteed to always match whatever exception unwinds through the invoke.
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For most languages it is enough to pass zero, indicating the presence of
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a <a href="#cleanups">cleanup</a>, as the
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last <a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a> argument.
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However for C++ this is not sufficient, because the C++ personality function
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will terminate the program if it detects that unwinding the exception only
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results in matches with cleanups. For C++ a <tt>null i8*</tt> should be
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passed as the last <a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a>
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argument instead. This is interpreted as a catch-all by the C++ personality
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function, and will always match.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_section">
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<a name="format_common_intrinsics">Exception Handling Intrinsics</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>LLVM uses several intrinsic functions (name prefixed with "llvm.eh") to
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provide exception handling information at various points in generated
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code.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsubsection">
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<a name="llvm_eh_exception">llvm.eh.exception</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<pre>
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i8* %<a href="#llvm_eh_exception">llvm.eh.exception</a>( )
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>This intrinsic returns a pointer to the exception structure.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsubsection">
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<a name="llvm_eh_selector">llvm.eh.selector</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<pre>
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i32 %<a href="#llvm_eh_selector">llvm.eh.selector.i32</a>(i8*, i8*, i8*, ...)
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i64 %<a href="#llvm_eh_selector">llvm.eh.selector.i64</a>(i8*, i8*, i8*, ...)
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>This intrinsic is used to compare the exception with the given type infos,
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filters and cleanups.</p>
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<p><a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a> takes a minimum of
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three arguments. The first argument is the reference to the exception
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structure. The second argument is a reference to the personality function to
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be used for this try catch sequence. Each of the remaining arguments is
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either a reference to the type info for a catch statement,
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a <a href="#throw_filters">filter</a> expression, or the number zero
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representing a <a href="#cleanups">cleanup</a>. The exception is tested
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against the arguments sequentially from first to last. The result of
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the <a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a> is a positive
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number if the exception matched a type info, a negative number if it matched
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a filter, and zero if it matched a cleanup. If nothing is matched, the
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behaviour of the program is <a href="#restrictions">undefined</a>. If a type
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info matched then the selector value is the index of the type info in the
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exception table, which can be obtained using the
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<a href="#llvm_eh_typeid_for"><tt>llvm.eh.typeid.for</tt></a> intrinsic.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsubsection">
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<a name="llvm_eh_typeid_for">llvm.eh.typeid.for</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<pre>
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i32 %<a href="#llvm_eh_typeid_for">llvm.eh.typeid.for.i32</a>(i8*)
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i64 %<a href="#llvm_eh_typeid_for">llvm.eh.typeid.for.i64</a>(i8*)
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>This intrinsic returns the type info index in the exception table of the
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current function. This value can be used to compare against the result
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of <a href="#llvm_eh_selector"><tt>llvm.eh.selector</tt></a>. The single
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argument is a reference to a type info.</p>
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<div class="doc_subsubsection">
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<a name="llvm_eh_sjlj_setjmp">llvm.eh.sjlj.setjmp</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<pre>
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i32 %<a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_setjmp">llvm.eh.sjlj.setjmp</a>(i8*)
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<p>The SJLJ exception handling uses this intrinsic to force register saving for
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the current function and to store the address of the following instruction
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for use as a destination address by <a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_longjmp">
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<tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.longjmp</tt></a>. The buffer format and the overall
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functioning of this intrinsic is compatible with the GCC
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<tt>__builtin_setjmp</tt> implementation, allowing code built with the
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two compilers to interoperate.</p>
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<p>The single parameter is a pointer to a five word buffer in which the calling
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context is saved. The front end places the frame pointer in the first word,
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and the target implementation of this intrinsic should place the destination
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address for a
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<a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_longjmp"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.longjmp</tt></a> in the
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second word. The following three words are available for use in a
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target-specific manner.</p>
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<div class="doc_subsubsection">
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<a name="llvm_eh_sjlj_lsda">llvm.eh.sjlj.lsda</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<pre>
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i8* %<a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_lsda">llvm.eh.sjlj.lsda</a>( )
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>Used for SJLJ based exception handling, the <a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_lsda">
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<tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.lsda</tt></a> intrinsic returns the address of the Language
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Specific Data Area (LSDA) for the current function. The SJLJ front-end code
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stores this address in the exception handling function context for use by the
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runtime.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsubsection">
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<a name="llvm_eh_sjlj_callsite">llvm.eh.sjlj.callsite</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<pre>
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void %<a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_callsite">llvm.eh.sjlj.callsite</a>(i32)
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>The SJLJ front-end allocates call site indices for invoke instrucitons.
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These values are passed to the back-end via the
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<a href="#llvm_eh_sjlj_callsite"><tt>llvm.eh.sjlj.callsite</tt></a>
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intrinsic, where they are used to build the LSDA call-site table.</p>
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<div class="doc_section">
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<a name="asm">Asm Table Formats</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>There are two tables that are used by the exception handling runtime to
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determine which actions should take place when an exception is thrown.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="unwind_tables">Exception Handling Frame</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>An exception handling frame <tt>eh_frame</tt> is very similar to the unwind
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frame used by dwarf debug info. The frame contains all the information
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necessary to tear down the current frame and restore the state of the prior
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frame. There is an exception handling frame for each function in a compile
|
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unit, plus a common exception handling frame that defines information common
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to all functions in the unit.</p>
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<p>Todo - Table details here.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection">
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<a name="exception_tables">Exception Tables</a>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>An exception table contains information about what actions to take when an
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exception is thrown in a particular part of a function's code. There is one
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exception table per function except leaf routines and functions that have
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only calls to non-throwing functions will not need an exception table.</p>
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<p>Todo - Table details here.</p>
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<a name="todo">ToDo</a>
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<li>Testing/Testing/Testing.</li>
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