Re: Moving VAX into 21 century :-)

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 09:56:51AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> You could of course change the code generator in GCC to do that.  It
> would be an ABI change, with far reaching impact.  Stack trace (GDB and
> elsewhere) would be completely different.  Function prologues would
> have to do register saving (not too difficult).  Exception handling
> would need to be redesigned.

Neither stack unwinding nor exception handling work with gcc/vax currently.

Martin