Exceptions and thread safety

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Wed Mar 22 15:04:00 GMT 2000


> I am told that exception handling in gcc is not thread safe. I am
> not sure what this precisely means, but I would imagine that if you
> have two threads and both enter exception handling code, then
> something nasty will happen.

That information is incorrect. The problem existed in gcc 2.8, but is
corrected in gcc 2.95.

Regards,
Martin


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