Soliciting help with libstdc++ and exceptions

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to Alexandre Oliva:
> On Dec 16, 1999, Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com> wrote:
> > This isn't strictly a gcc issue, but I'm trying to use libstdc++ v3,
> > and I'm finding the combination of CVS gcc and CVS libstdc++ unable to
> > throw and catch any exceptions of any kind.
> 
> Could it be that your GNU as is from binutils-2.9.1?

No, fortunately:

$ dpkg -l binutils
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  binutils        2.9.5.0.22-1   The GNU assembler, linker and binary utiliti

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