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by fdsfsafasfdas 3309 days ago
Disabling exceptions has solved this. There are no need for exceptions in the kernel, and the cost is high.
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Isn't table-driven stack unwinding cheaper than having a bunch of functions each check an error code and return to their caller?
The practicalities of bare metal programming means that a lot of the time an individual work item has to jump contexts (ie. stacks and register sets) in a way that doesn't map cleanly to C++ style exceptions.