Keeping unreachable code

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Casper Hornstrup wrote:
> I am doing this because I'm developing a open source Windows NT clone (see
> www.reactos.com) using GCC/MinGW. MS Visual C++ compiler supports Structured
> Exception Handling (SEH), which is exception handling at the OS and compiler
> level, but GCC does not.
> SEH can be used to make robust drivers and is required for some
> types of Windows NT drivers. MinGW will benefit from SEH support in GCC too
> since Windows applications can use it too.

Beware of microsoft patents in the area of "structured exception
handling".  IIRC there are some related to the stack layout they
use.

brgds, H-P