egcs and exceptions

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 31, 1998, Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> wrote:

>>>>>> Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:

>> Maybe you have to build libgcc.a and libstdc++.a with this option
>> enabled.

> Yes.  If you want to use sjlj, it makes more sense to change
> the default for exceptions_via_longjmp in except.c and rebuild the
> compiler, rather than trying to consistently pass the flag.  This is true
> for other ABI flags, as well.

But the doubt is: must you do that, or can you just compile and link
foo.cc with -fsjlj-exceptions on Solaris and it will work?  I remember 
it used to work back in the pre-2.8 days, but it may have changed
after dwarf2 exception support was added.

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Alexandre Oliva
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