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Subject: Re: Successful build of GCC 4.2.0 RC3 on latest Cygwin snapshot 20070427
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Charles Wilson wrote:

> Danger, Will Robinson: the g++ from gcc-4.2.0 does not have any support 
> for catching exceptions thrown across DLL boundaries.  Nor does it 
> include the fix for empty strings (PR24196).

One issue that might affect many some is that COM doesn't work. 
<http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27067> has a patch that is 
pending review I guess, but probably won't go into 4.2.

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