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RE: win32 features I may add to GCC
- From: "Rupert Wood" <me at rupey dot net>
- To: "'Hans-Peter Nilsson'" <hp at bitrange dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>,"'Jonathan Wilson'" <jonwil at tpgi dot com dot au>
- Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 15:04:51 +0100
- Subject: RE: win32 features I may add to GCC
Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > Structured Exception Handling (needed for doing kernel-mode
> > programming on win32, among other things)
> One or more patents.
Really? There are plenty of non-MS compilers already (e.g. Borland's,
Codeplay's, Intel's, etc.) that'll generate Win32 C++ code using the OS's
standard C++ exceptions and, IIRC, they're SEH exceptions type 0xE06D7363 (E
for exception, 'msc').
More likely they have patents in case someone reimplemented SEH verbatim in
another OS's kernel not to squash a C++ compiler targeting Win32.
Has there been any official word from MS before? Are you sure this is a
problem?
Rup.