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Re: WIN-31: boehm-gc don't do SEH in GCC
"Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
> I assume gcc just doesn't support structured exception handling on
> Windows?
That's what I was told on gcc@gcc.gnu.org.
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-02/msg01713.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-02/msg01715.html
> In particular, I think this is a reliability issue for the GC code.
Yeah, I noticed the comment about Win98. I'm not too keen on that, but
I don't know how else to handle this. Does this affect incremental GC
only, or non-incremental as well?
> Unless you know something about this that I don't, it seems to me we
> have to find some way to catch them and recover. Or we have to
> switch to a model where we explicitly register static roots.
Is this helpful?
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1999-08/msg00362.html
It's public domain, so we can borrow code from it if needed.
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