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Re: gcc for AIX that supports exceptions across shared objects
- To: Stuart Jarriel <sjarriel at motive dot com>
- Subject: Re: gcc for AIX that supports exceptions across shared objects
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 28 May 2001 18:39:05 -0300
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <3B126525.8AAF1122@motive.com>
On May 28, 2001, Stuart Jarriel <sjarriel@motive.com> wrote:
> We have discovered that the version of gcc we use on AIX doesnt support
> throw/catch of exceptions across shared object boundaries. Is there a
> version of gcc that does support it?
IN general, throw/catch across shared object boundaries is only
supported when libgcc is a shared library. Check whether libgcc is a
shared library, and you'll know whether this feature will work. This
appears to be the case with GCC 3.0 (pre-release) on AIX 4.3 and
above.
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