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Re: (lack of) Thread-safe exceptions on AIX (gcc-2.95.1)


>>>>> Mike Stump writes:

Mike> :-) I guess it is time for someone to expose the existing machinery in
Mike> the compiler to the C language.  All the semantics are already there.
Mike> All the backend code is already there.  All the hard work has been
Mike> done.  What remains is to invent a syntax and wire it up.  Glue code
Mike> if you will.

Mike> If someone wants a cool project, and wants to be forever blamed for
Mike> exception handling in C, I'd even provide pointers, tricks and
Mike> details...  Step on up, don't be shy.

	Not that we necessarily want to follow their design, but Microsoft
already has a definition of exception handling in C and there is a source
code base using that definition.

David
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