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Re: Exception propagation problem on IA-64/Linux
On Oct 28, 2005, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> In general, comparison of type_info objects is supposed to be done by
> checking for address equality of the type info strings.
> In the situation where we
> do not use strcmp, I would not expect to see that bug -- because I would
> expect that the type_info objects and the corresponding type_info
> strings are local symbols.
If the strings turn out to be identical and the linker merges them, we
fail...
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