gcc conformance to HP-PA ABI

[Richard Boylan]

On Fri, 7 Jul 100, Olivier Hainque wrote:

> Thanks again to you and Richard for your numerous comments.
>  
> > It's come up from time to time -- usually folks give up soon after they
> > start digging into the issues :(
> 
>   The idea here could be to get a support for exception handling in various
>   languages without setjmp/longjmp. Perhaps would you have other suggestions
>   to achieve this on the PA ?

I should think that the overhead of the HP unwind library would be higher
than the overhead of setjmp/longjmp.

Richard Boylan
Stratus Computer
Maynard, Massachusetts USA
boylan@sw.stratus.com