Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
To: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: Exceptions
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 20:55:11 -0700
Message-ID: <19980511035425.AAP4598@ppp107.cartsys.com>
Precedence: bulk

At 12:04  5/10/1998 -0400, Peter Palotas wrote:
>>AFAIK, the standard `-fexceptions' switch handles exceptions through a
>>table, which is managed by GCC's library. DJGPP does not yet contain the
>>startup code to set this up correctly, so it doesn't work.
>
>In version 2.8.1 just released it seems to work. Atleast I have compiled
>code that used exceptions without the -fsjlj-exceptions switch and
>everything worked as expected.  So I think it works by now, and that is
>good if they are faster or more efficient or something, becuase it has to
>be something since it is the default switch.

As I understand it, 2.8.1 just enables `-fsjlj-exceptions' by default, to
save you the trouble. Unless something I haven't heard about has happened,
nothing has actually changed.

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com