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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Schaible=2C_J=F6rg=22?= <Joerg DOT Schaible AT gft DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: DLLs and exceptions
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:10:52 +0200
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Hi Al,

>The problem is when an exception is thrown in libupdb.dll, I 
>get the message
>"abnormal program termination" and the program stops.
>
>If I build the program without using dlls (ie build the 
>program against the
>object files instead of the dlls) the exception gets thrown and caught
>properly.

at least the last time I tried to do this, gcc did not support excetions
acress dll boundaries. Although some time has passed (a year or so) I never
heard anything else. You may have a look at the gcc mailing list archives.

Greetings,
Jörg

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