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Re: Enable DWARF2 exceptions on Alpha?
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Enable DWARF2 exceptions on Alpha?
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 16:57:36 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 21 May 2001, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > carefully at the new EH. I don't know if anyone is looking at these, and
> > I have neither the time nor expertise to do much about it right now :(
>
> Okay, I understand. What I was trying to determine was whether there
> was some special reason that the branch and the trunk were different.
I don't think so. We turned on sjlj-exceptions long before the branch.
That probably should have disappeared during the EH merge.
> If you look at the PPC changes I just checked in, you'll see a new
> file called include/dwarf2-signal.h. I believe that if sjlj is turned
> off and this file is used to catch signals the Alpha should work in
> exactly the same way as the PPC.
The alpha build currently aborts on any `throw' statement. I believe that
is completely unrelated to signal handling. When/if that is fixed
your PPC patch should help too.
Jeff