On Mar 21, 2011, at 2:43 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2011, at 14:19, Greg Parker wrote:
>> (The problem is that the forwarding machinery is hand-written assembly, and 
>> nobody added hand-written exception unwind tables to match. With "zero-cost" 
>> exceptions, the unwinder cannot process a frame without its unwind tables.)
> 
> Hand-written assembly? Really?

Yep. The forwarding machinery needs to pull parameters off the stack for 
arbitrary method signatures. You can't do that in C.


-- 
Greg Parker     gpar...@apple.com     Runtime Wrangler


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