libsupc++

Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
Wed Jan 31 06:13:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Green <green@redhat.com> writes:

> On Friday, December 22, 2000 10:27 AM, Richard Henderson [SMTP:rth@redhat.com] 
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:07:57PM -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
>> > It's an unfortunate choice of names.
>> 
>> Why, what would you have called it?

> libeh?  Perhaps there's no good alternative.  It looks like a library for 
> supporting C++, but my impression was that it really isn't C++ specific.

libsupc++ is the necessary library code for a freestanding implementation
of C++.  It is very C++ specific.  The generic EH library code remains in
libgcc.

Jason


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