stack overflow & null pointer exceptions

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 21, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> That probably means it's not a problem with the exception handling
> code at all.

> ../egcs/configure --with-gcc-version-trigger=/x/gback/egcs/gcc/version.c --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/opt/local --norecursion 

It might be the assembler.  Some versions of GNU binutils will
incorrectly assemble exception handling notes emitted by egcs.
http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html#x86eh

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