http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56858
--- Comment #9 from Richard Henderson <rth at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-04-08 19:27:03 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8) > The part of alpha EH that depends on the notes must have been been > broken since than, more than 12 years. Without anyone noticing... Sure. Do you know any package that combines C++ EH with IEEE exceptions? I don't. In fact, I don't actually know of a package that wants to enable trapping fp math at all. > I really, really wouldn't like to keep this code in alpha alive, and > with it these REG_EH_REGION notes, for barely (if at all) used ages-old > alpha targets... Do you believe that you're going to be able to delete the notes entirely, and that it's only Alpha that's keeping them alive? That's certainly not true, I assure you.