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Re: IA64 EH
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: IA64 EH
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 26 May 2000 13:09:55 -0700
- CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20000525170021U.mitchell@codesourcery.com>
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> We should make a decision as to whether or not we want to use the
> IA64-style exception handling on other platforms or not. There's no
> backwards compatibility issue here beacuse we're breaking the ABI in
> the next release anyhow -- and removing support for the old ABI. So,
This doesn't apply to EH stuff. We're not breaking that ABI.
(The significance is that you can throw exceptions through C code, too,
and we're only breaking the C++ ABI.)
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>