[fpc-devel] Status of SEH in FPC
Hello, what's the current state of the SEH in FPC trunk? IIRC - and according to wikipedia ;-) - SEH, at least for Windows, was in the 2.7 roadmap, but I can't find any related brach, or commit, or post. Also AFAIU would have some gains in both executable size and speed, correct? -Flávio ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
Re: [fpc-devel] Status of SEH in FPC
03.03.2013 2:53, Flávio Etrusco пишет: Hello, what's the current state of the SEH in FPC trunk? IIRC - and according to wikipedia ;-) - SEH, at least for Windows, was in the 2.7 roadmap, but I can't find any related brach, or commit, or post. Also AFAIU would have some gains in both executable size and speed, correct? By now SEH is fully implemented for Win64 target, but you need to cycle the compiler with OPT=-dTEST_WIN64_SEH to enable it. The most of it was committed in revision 20098. The effect of SEH is two-fold: it gives some performance gain when running without exceptions, but big penalty when exceptions occur. It somewhat reduces code size but at the same time adds some data, so executable size may not reduce. The main advantage of SEH is the conformance with OS exception handing scheme. Without it, it was almost impossible to use DLLs that raise exceptions. Regards, Sergei ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
Re: [fpc-devel] Status of SEH in FPC
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: > 03.03.2013 2:53, Flávio Etrusco пишет: > >> Hello, >> >> what's the current state of the SEH in FPC trunk? >> IIRC - and according to wikipedia ;-) - SEH, at least for Windows, was >> in the 2.7 roadmap, but I can't find any related brach, or commit, or >> post. >> Also AFAIU would have some gains in both executable size and speed, >> correct? >> > By now SEH is fully implemented for Win64 target, but you need to cycle the > compiler with OPT=-dTEST_WIN64_SEH to enable it. > The most of it was committed in revision 20098. > > The effect of SEH is two-fold: it gives some performance gain when running > without exceptions, but big penalty when exceptions occur. It somewhat > reduces code size but at the same time adds some data, so executable size > may not reduce. > > The main advantage of SEH is the conformance with OS exception handing > scheme. Without it, it was almost impossible to use DLLs that raise > exceptions. > > Regards, > Sergei Thanks. And are there any plans to implement it for Win32? ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
Re: [fpc-devel] Status of SEH in FPC
On 03.03.2013 17:45, Flávio Etrusco wrote: On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: 03.03.2013 2:53, Flávio Etrusco пишет: Hello, what's the current state of the SEH in FPC trunk? IIRC - and according to wikipedia ;-) - SEH, at least for Windows, was in the 2.7 roadmap, but I can't find any related brach, or commit, or post. Also AFAIU would have some gains in both executable size and speed, correct? By now SEH is fully implemented for Win64 target, but you need to cycle the compiler with OPT=-dTEST_WIN64_SEH to enable it. The most of it was committed in revision 20098. The effect of SEH is two-fold: it gives some performance gain when running without exceptions, but big penalty when exceptions occur. It somewhat reduces code size but at the same time adds some data, so executable size may not reduce. The main advantage of SEH is the conformance with OS exception handing scheme. Without it, it was almost impossible to use DLLs that raise exceptions. Regards, Sergei Thanks. And are there any plans to implement it for Win32? I don't know whether there are any plans, but I hope so... Note: It should also be rather easy to implement SEH for arm-wince (and a possible future arm-winrt), because on ARM a similar exception mechanism is used by Windows/MSVC. Regards, Sven ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
Re: [fpc-devel] Status of SEH in FPC
On 03.03.2013 17:52, Sven Barth wrote: On 03.03.2013 17:45, Flávio Etrusco wrote: On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Sergei Gorelkin wrote: 03.03.2013 2:53, Flávio Etrusco пишет: Hello, what's the current state of the SEH in FPC trunk? IIRC - and according to wikipedia ;-) - SEH, at least for Windows, was in the 2.7 roadmap, but I can't find any related brach, or commit, or post. Also AFAIU would have some gains in both executable size and speed, correct? By now SEH is fully implemented for Win64 target, but you need to cycle the compiler with OPT=-dTEST_WIN64_SEH to enable it. The most of it was committed in revision 20098. The effect of SEH is two-fold: it gives some performance gain when running without exceptions, but big penalty when exceptions occur. It somewhat reduces code size but at the same time adds some data, so executable size may not reduce. The main advantage of SEH is the conformance with OS exception handing scheme. Without it, it was almost impossible to use DLLs that raise exceptions. Regards, Sergei Thanks. And are there any plans to implement it for Win32? I don't know whether there are any plans, but I hope so... Just so that nobody misunderstands it: this does not mean that Sergei must be the one that implements it... Regards, Sven ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
