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Re: Exception handling, dynamic linking and weak symbol tricks
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com, oneill at cs dot sfu dot ca
- Subject: Re: Exception handling, dynamic linking and weak symbol tricks
- From: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:43:27 -0700
> From: "Melissa O'Neill" <oneill@cs.sfu.ca>
> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 00:16:56 -0700
> Then I realized that matters may be even worse -- the new
> ``__throw'' method for exception handling does not appear to be
> compatible with dynamic linking at all (at least in its current
> incarnation), since seems to assume that frame information will be
> statically determined.
Not compatible? There may be a bug, if there is, you can state it
and, if you have time fix it, or if not, submit the bug report and
eventually someone else may fix it for you. I think the underlying
scheme was designed to support dynamic loading and unloading of code.