conts, handlers, and liveness

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Wed, 18 Jul 2001 17:21:55 -0700


> I don't know why we have liveOffsets for
> the handlers in the release version -- we never use it.

It seems to be a historical accident.  As far as I can tell, it was never used.
In the move from version 1999-1-20 to version 1999-2-23, the genCont function of
backend.fun was generalized to work for both handlers and conts.  The
liveOffsets field appeared and was unused.