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Re: My proposal for the libgcc runtime ABI (ia64 gcc/glibc is broken.)
- To: torvalds at transmeta dot com
- Subject: Re: My proposal for the libgcc runtime ABI (ia64 gcc/glibc is broken.)
- From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 19:59:01 +0200
- CC: geoffk at cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10007111516050.2803-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
> Wouldn't it be better to _not_ consider this to be part of libgcc, and
> instead have a well-defined EH record format and just tell people to use
> it in their system libraries.
There is a well-defined format. The problem is that you need a
process-wide list of such structures, to find the entry points into
the structures when an exception is thrown in one library and caught
in another.
Regards,
Martin