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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 12:19:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey AT redhat DOT com>
cc: Julian Hall <jules AT acris DOT co DOT uk>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, java AT gcc DOT gnu DOT org
Subject: Re: Progress update with gcj on cygwin
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On 6 Jul 2001, Tom Tromey wrote:

> >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Hall <jules AT acris DOT co DOT uk> writes:
> 
> Julian> I have now tracked the problem down to occurring during the
> Julian> stack unwinding process, which unfortunately I understand very
> Julian> little about.
> 
> I thought that the new unwind code was known not to work on Cygwin.
> Am I wrong?

You're correct. Dwarf2 based unwinding code does not work for any of
the x86 windows ports (Cygwin, Mingw, ...).

Until the proper changes are made to the startup code for Cygwin/Mingw/etc
in addition to some other changes in the x86 windows target specific code,
sjlj is it. 

Regards,
Mumit



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