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Re: Cost of having try-catch statements?
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin at egholm-nielsen dot dk>, GCJ <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:51:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: Cost of having try-catch statements?
- References: <cfan45$ghk$1@sea.gmane.org><4119A435.3010606@gmail.com>
Ranjit Mathew writes:
>
> GCC builds for Windows from MinGW (www.mingw.org) however
> use SJLJ (setjmp-longjmp) based exception handling which
> does involve an overhead even in the "normal" case. This
> is needed at the moment to correctly unwind over a Windows
> events callback stack.
Eh. Maybe my mind is going, but I thought I'd seen a patch to unwind
over Windows callbacks.
Andrew.