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Re: [C++, ARM]: fix EH catching corner case

Jason Merrill wrote:
On 08/05/2009 11:32 AM, Nathan Sidwell wrote: 

we can catch this with 'catch (B *&b)' or 'catch (A *a)', but not 'catch
(A *&a)'.

I wouldn't be so quick to change G++ here, as this is an open core issue:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/cwg_active.html#388

Thanks. The motivation for this patch is that the ARM EABI specifies we should not catch in this case -- and ARM's compiler does not catch. Has there been any movement on the DR since it was filed in 2002?

nathan

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