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Table of contents 1 Zoltan Varga branches 1.1 aot-direct-icalls 1.2 inline-wrappers 1.3 llvm-varargs 1.4 mcs-parallel-build 1.5 mk 1.6 normal-throw-trampolines 1.7 resume-unwind 1.8 soft-breakpoints 1.9 thumb2 1.10 unwind-info-for-epilogs

Zoltan Varga branches

Most of these branches are unfinished/work-in-progress.

aot-direct-icalls

Proof of concept implementation of calling icalls directly from AOT code in static mode.

inline-wrappers

Inline managed-to-native wrappers into their callers, to reduce icall overhead.

llvm-varargs

Change the vararg calling convention to be compatible with the platform ABI, so vararg methods can be compiled using LLVM.

mcs-parallel-build

Building the class libs in parallel.

mk

automake/libtool replacement using GNU Make facilities. This has the following advantages:

• faster.
• no need for the Makefile.am -> Makefile.in -> Makefile transitions, normal Makefile’s can be used.
• the configuration information is in a single conf.mk file which is directly editable.

normal-throw-trampolines

Throwing exceptions using the normal mono trampolines instead of the specialized ones currently used.

resume-unwind

Implementation of finally blocks in the style of the c++ ehabi.

soft-breakpoints

Implementation of breakpoints using trampolines instead of page faults.

thumb2

Thumb2 support for ARM.

unwind-info-for-epilogs

Emit precise unwind info for method epilogs.