Tail recursion vs exceptions vs C++

[Iain McClatchie <iain at truecircuits dot com>]

I cannot compile the following one-line program without
disabling exceptions.  Fails for both GCC 3.2.2 and 3.2.1.

int main() { main(); }

Use the command line:
gcc tail.cc

Note that if the C compiler is used rather than the C++
compiler, GCC succeeds.  egcs-2.91.66 (that's the old Red
Hat release) works, if that matters.

queue21 (try) [6] % gcc tail.cc
/tmp/ccgYrf4b.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
queue21 (try) [7] % gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)
 ...

% /usr/local/gcc3.2.1/bin/gcc tail.cc
/tmp/ccwq3zf9.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
% /usr/local/gcc3.2.1/bin/gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.2.1
 ...

% /usr/local/gcc3.2.1/bin/gcc -fno-exceptions tail.cc
% gcc -fno-exceptions tail.cc
% 

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