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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] accel/tcg: Add URL of clang bug to comment about our workaround
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:19:46 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2gbsrc7.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210129130330.30820-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>


Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> In cpu_exec() we have a longstanding workaround for compilers which
> do not correctly implement the part of the sigsetjmp()/siglongjmp()
> spec which requires that local variables which are not changed
> between the setjmp and the longjmp retain their value.
>
> I recently ran across the upstream clang bug report for this; add a
> link to it to the comment describing the workaround, and generally
> expand the comment, so that we have a reasonable chance in future of
> understanding why it's there and determining when we can remove it,
> assuming clang eventually fixes the bug.
>
> Remove the /* buggy compiler */ comments on the #else and #endif:
> they don't add anything to understanding and are somewhat misleading
> since they're sandwiching the code path for *non*-buggy compilers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

-- 
Alex Bennée


  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-29 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-29 13:03 [PATCH] accel/tcg: Add URL of clang bug to comment about our workaround Peter Maydell
2021-01-29 15:19 ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2021-02-09 10:20   ` Peter Maydell

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