Exceptions and shared libraries on X86

Anthony Green green@cygnus.com
Fri Dec 31 20:54:00 GMT 1999


"Martin v. Loewis" <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

> > Is there a problem with Exceptions, shared libraries and X86?   My program 
> > crashes when I throw an exception (it never gets to the catch part). This 
> > is for gcc 2.95-2 on redhad 5.x.
> 
> Thanks for your bug report. I'm not aware of a problem. Please see

There is an annoying, difficult to debug, systemic problem with GCC's
exception handling in certain environments.  It's a bit tricky, so I
just wrote a document describing it.  I would appreciate any comments.

http://www.cygnus.com/~green/eh_and_libgcc.html

BTW - I'm not saying this is your problem for sure - but you should at
least be aware.

AG

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Anthony Green                                               Cygnus Solutions
                                                       Sunnyvale, California



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