From: rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Boon van der RJ)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: gcc280b.zip
Date: 12 Mar 1998 11:40:42 GMT
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Nate Eldredge (eldredge AT ap DOT net) wrote:
>At 02:24  3/11/1998 -0600, J.E. wrote:
>IMHO, you probably need 2.8.0 only in the following circumstances:
>
>* You have noticed bugs in 2.7.2.1 that bother you.
>* You use C++ and need decent exceptions support.

Not a good reason, if i am correct. See another thread (bugs in 2.8.0)
on this newsgroup going on. Robert Hoehne replied there:
== begin quote ==
  > Second, rather serious: exceptions cannot be caught.  The
  > following program:
 
  Thanks for finding this out. This is a real DJGPP specific bug.
  I found already now the location but as I can overlook it, it
  is not trivial to fix. The main problem here is, that gcc comes
  with it's own startupfiles which initialize all that exception
  handling (tables and so on) which isn't done on DJGPP so the
  exceptions will not work.
== end quote ==

hth,
 Robert.
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