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From: "Constantine Sapuntzakis" <csapuntz AT stanford DOT edu>
To: <cygwin-apps AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: G++, C++ Exception handling, and cygwin
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:46:38 -0700
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The libgcc.a that is distributed with cygwin gcc-2.95.3-4 only supports
single threaded C++ exception handling. The library has exception routines
that use static variables.

When I  substitute a version of libgcc.a that includes the code in
gcc/gthr-win32.h, multi-threaded
C++ apps with exception handling seem to work (we've been running them for a
couple months
now).

Given that the code seems to be there to do this correctly, why is it not
enabled?

Thanks,
Costa