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Re: eh_pc reference

To: kerrr@et.byu.edu
Subject: Re: eh_pc reference
From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 08:23:33 +0200
CC: libstdc++@sourceware.cygnus.com
References: <Pine.GHP.4.10.9908171838220.9578-100000@malachi.et.byu.edu>

> back in libstdc++.so.2.8.0 there was a symbol __eh_pc.  I haven't
> been able to find it in recent libraries.  Has it been obsoleted?

Yes. Exception handling in gcc 2.8 is not thread-safe; you can't use a
global variable to point to the program counter in the presence of
threads. With gcc 2.95, those data structures have to been changed to
be thread-local.

Regards,
Martin

References:
- eh_pc reference
  - From: Robert Kerr <kerrr@et.byu.edu>

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