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Re: Borland software patent restricting GNU compiler development

* Ranjit Mathew:

> Without looking at the patent, I would hazard the guess
> that it is about Win32 Structured Exception Handling (SEH):
>
>   http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0197/exception/exception.aspx
>
> (The linked-to mail from the GCC mailing list seems to
> confirm this.)

Indeed.  Explicitly pushing an exception frame pointer on the main
stack is covered by the patent.
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