EGCS vs MSVC - exception handling

[Andreas Schwab]

Arun Sharma <asharma@netscape.com> writes:

|> Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
|>> That requires quite a bit more work.  You might start with adding
|>> -fasynchronous-exceptions to the command line (or something close to that)
|>> which instructs flow to create an edge from every insn to its EH handler
|>> (since just about any insn could trap into a signal handler).

|> Why would that be necessary ? Inside the signal handler, I know
|> precisely which instruction generated the trap by looking into the
|> sigcontext. All I need to do is to be able to unwind the stack and
|> look for the right exception handler to call.

The sigcontext is as unportable as you can get.

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