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Re: (lack of) Thread-safe exceptions on AIX (gcc-2.95.1)
- To: Mike Stump <mrs at windriver dot com>
- Subject: Re: (lack of) Thread-safe exceptions on AIX (gcc-2.95.1)
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:13:36 -0500
- cc: gback at cs dot utah dot edu, green at cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>>>>> 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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