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Re: java vs ia64 abi exceptions
- To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at albatross dot co dot nz>
- Subject: Re: java vs ia64 abi exceptions
- From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:50:24 -0500 (EST)
- cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> Java doesn't want to know about exceptions that don't extend
> Throwable, but I guess non-java exceptions thrown from C++ should be
> able to pass through Java frames and be caught in C++, and in that
> case Java "finally" semantics should probibly be preserved.
For robustness it is critical that any Java method cleanups are executed
regardless of the exception, or synchronized methods may never release
their lock.
Deadlocked applications are my nemesis.
Jeff