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Re: exceptions and optimization
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com, parkes at sierravista dot com
- Subject: Re: exceptions and optimization
- From: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:11:43 -0700
> To: egcs@cygnus.com
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 17:39:54 -0700
> From: Steven Parkes <parkes@sierravista.com>
> There is still a comment in NEWS that says that optimization and
> -fhandle-exceptions are mutually exclusive. Is there still a
> problem with exceptions and optimization? Nothing in the egcs FAQ.
You're reading old news, that news is now out of date. This:
A major change in this release is the addition of a framework for
exception handling, currently used by C++. Many internal changes and
optimization improvements have been made.
in meant to override it, but maybe that's too subtle.
Yes, -O is supported. -fhandle-exceptions isn't supported anymore,
but -fexceptions is, and that is the default.