On Wed, 7 Sep 2011, Richard Guenther wrote: > With async signals we can at least get interrupted in the middle of an > epilogue. What you are allowed to do here (throw an exception? > perform manual unwinding? use gdb which unwinds?) is another > question. ISTR customer requests for this feature at least (which > I think was doing profiling stuff).
Profiling this way is discussed in Nathan Froyd et al's paper in the 2006 Summit proceedings. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com