Re: Wrestling with exceptions on win32 gcj 4.1

[Mohan Embar <gnustuff at thisiscool dot com>]

HI People,

>However, I still maintain that someone should put in the
>effort to move Windows over to DWARF-2 EH instead of
>SJLJ.

One of the daunting things for me in looking at this is
that although I know how to string together some C(++)
code or Java code, I am pretty unfamiliar with things
like machine code generation, stack frames, executable
file formats, x86 assembler, lex, yacc, ASTs, Dwarf EH and
other stuff whiich would allow me to even have a hope of 
understanding these issues. I'm sure I'm not alone in this
feeling of helplessness and it's not limited to Win32-specific
things either.

I know I could take the time to catalog the areas of expertise
I'd need to learn about in order to be able to roll up my
sleeves and hack gcc better, but it's too high of an activation
energy for where I am right now. If I had some sort of a shopping
list (not necessarily a big one; preferably with hyperlinks), I might
be more inclined to learn about this stuff, and I suspect many
others would appreciate this too.

-- Mohan
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