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.

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Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com

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