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Re: exception handling poll
- To: Stephen Williams <steve at icarus dot icarus dot com>
- Subject: Re: exception handling poll
- From: Oleg Krivosheev <kriol at fnal dot gov>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 18:12:03 -0500 (CDT)
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
hi,
On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Stephen Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Richard Henderson wrote:
>
> > A little poll for those that have been complaining about
> > exception handling frame unwind info being included for C:
> >
> > Assuming the .eh_frame section is completely read-only, at what
> > eh/text ratio would you find it acceptible that that information
> > is always there?
> >
> > Can you live with 10%? 8? 5? 3?
>
> I can no longer contain myself:
>
> 0%. (Well, maybe a tiny bit more then that.)
>
> I use g++ for embedded targets, and I have spent much effort getting
> executable sizes down. Exception handling would be really nice, but
> x% costs real hardware, and real money. And prices are not linear, either.
>
> Don't forget us embedded people, please:-)
hmm...
can be EH exposed into C? Something like MS
__try, __catch etc ? Maybe after this embedded
people will be happy having added value for few %
bloat?
just a thought
OK