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Re: gcc conformance to HP-PA ABI
- To: Olivier Hainque <hainque at act-europe dot fr>
- Subject: Re: gcc conformance to HP-PA ABI
- From: Richard Boylan <boylan at sw dot stratus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:05:02 -0400 (EDT)
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On Fri, 7 Jul 100, Olivier Hainque wrote:
> Thanks again to you and Richard for your numerous comments.
>
> > It's come up from time to time -- usually folks give up soon after they
> > start digging into the issues :(
>
> The idea here could be to get a support for exception handling in various
> languages without setjmp/longjmp. Perhaps would you have other suggestions
> to achieve this on the PA ?
I should think that the overhead of the HP unwind library would be higher
than the overhead of setjmp/longjmp.
Richard Boylan
Stratus Computer
Maynard, Massachusetts USA
boylan@sw.stratus.com