exception handling poll

[Stephen Williams]

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Richard Henderson wrote:

> A little poll for those that have been complaining about 
> exception handling frame unwind info being included for C:
> 
>   Assuming the .eh_frame section is completely read-only, at what
>   eh/text ratio would you find it acceptible that that information
>   is always there?
> 
> Can you live with 10%?  8?  5?  3?

I can no longer contain myself:

0%. (Well, maybe a tiny bit more then that.)

I use g++ for embedded targets, and I have spent much effort getting
executable sizes down. Exception handling would be really nice, but
x% costs real hardware, and real money. And prices are not linear, either.

Don't forget us embedded people, please:-)

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Steve Williams
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