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Re: IA64 EH


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.)
-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>

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