On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:39:34PM +0200, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
> C++ exceptions doesn't work on any ELF port using the dwarf2 unwind
> mechanism, but everything works fine using set-jump/long-jump exceptions.
> So I'm going to let all ELF ports using sjlj exceptions (by adding a line
> #define DWARF2_UNWIND_INFO 0 in the relevant gcc configuration files.)
> 
> This constituetes an ABI change, but as I understands it, it will only
> affect the actual throwing of excetions (and that segfalts without this
> change anyway...) Sjlj is slower than the other exception mechanism, but
> they work now. I will make sure that we use the faster mechanism when we
> switch to gcc 3.0 (since it will involve an API change anyway.)
> 
> So I just want to make sure people don't think this is a stupid thing to
> do. I'll make this change Thursday unless someone complains before that.

Great! (I can remove COPTS+= -fsjlj-exceptions from all my Makefile.inc files
:-)

Patrick