On 5/23/06, Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:21:46AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Has work been done to evaluate a calling convention that takes error
> checks like this into account? Are there size/performance wins? Or am
> I just reinventing a variation on exception handling?
It's fairly close to Fortran alternate return labels, which
were standard in Fortran 77 but have been declared obsolescent
in later revisions of the standard.
I like this method since it can be implemented transparently in C
code. That means the Linux kernel could use it without rewriting
everything.
Regards,
Gabriel
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