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Re: Exception handling implementation information

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: John Fine <johnsfine at verizon dot net>
Cc: George Argyros <argyros dot george at gmail dot com>, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:39:45 +0100
Subject: Re: Exception handling implementation information
References: <a477118b0906291047v2b5b7c1en3c21d22023aac63d@mail.gmail.com> <4A48FED8.9010604@redhat.com> <4A490749.6060600@verizon.net>

John Fine wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>
>> The spec is at
>> http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi-eh.html
>>
>>
>>   
> Thanks, I also wanted similar info and haven't found time to even search.
> But like a lot of similar documents that says "Itanium" and I'm
> interested in x86-64.

That doesn't matter.  The ABI is shared.

> I haven't taken the time to study that one yet, but other documents
> where "Itanium" is used as the standard make it very hard to guess which
> details remain the same in x86-64 vs. which details get changed for x86-64.
> Short of the source code, is there any documentation (on exception
> handling) either for x86-64 specifically or for the differences between
> x86-64 and Itanium?

With regard to the exception handling, all gcc targets follow the Itanium
spec.  The x86_64 ABI is at www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf

Andrew.

References:
- Exception handling implementation information
  - From: George Argyros
- Re: Exception handling implementation information
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: Exception handling implementation information
  - From: John Fine

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