[EXT] Re: [aarch64-port-dev ] RFR(XS): Provide information when hitting a HaltNode for architectures other than x86

[Andrew Haley]

On 5/6/20 9:45 PM, Doerr, Martin wrote:
> I had also thought about using a trap based implementation.
> Maybe it makes sense to add a feature to shared code for that.
> E.g. we could emit an illegal instruction (which raises SIGILL) followed by some kind of index into a descriptor array.
> PPC64 would also benefit from a more compact solution.

Most of the stuff to handle this would be in the back end, I would
have thought. I'll have a look.

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