win32 features I may add to GCC

[Rupert Wood]

Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:

> > Structured Exception Handling (needed for doing kernel-mode 
> > programming on win32, among other things)
> One or more patents.

Really? There are plenty of non-MS compilers already (e.g. Borland's,
Codeplay's, Intel's, etc.) that'll generate Win32 C++ code using the OS's
standard C++ exceptions and, IIRC, they're SEH exceptions type 0xE06D7363 (E
for exception, 'msc').

More likely they have patents in case someone reimplemented SEH verbatim in
another OS's kernel not to squash a C++ compiler targeting Win32.

Has there been any official word from MS before? Are you sure this is a
problem?

Rup.