On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Cactus <rieman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I had an interesting email exchange with Agner Fog about this and he > argues that it is not unreasonable to ignore the need for exception > support in low level code since very few exceptions can occur anyway > and those that can are not likely to be recoverable. > > I am hence wondering if that is a strategy that makes seense. What do > people here think? Does it makes sense to take a 5% performance hit > in order to support Windows x64 exception handling? > > best regards, > > Brian
How would that affect debugging information? For example, suppose that some high level program is using MPIR and ends up calling one of the MPIR routines with a pointer that is slightly off. If that propagates into one of the assembly routines before actually triggering a protection fault, would Windows debugging tools need the stack unwind to identify the source of the error? (I don't know how the Microsoft development tools are designed, so I have no idea if this is even a relevant question. I know that gdb just uses the processor's debug registers to get this type of information.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
