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Re: ARM EABI version 5 and bpabi.o


Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> writes:

> Thanks for the hint.  How can an assembler or C function throw an exception?

It can raise a signal, e.g., SIGFPE, and the signal handler can throw.

> Does this mean that only on GNU/Linux we need this unwind stuff?

You only need it if your signal handlers can throw, or call backtrace,
or otherwise try to unwind the stack.

Ian


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