Question about POSIX libgcj signals / exception handling

[Mohan Embar]

Thanks, David.

-- Mohan

3/11/2006 11:39:34 AM, David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com> wrote:

>Mohan Embar wrote:
>> 
>>>One thing that you need to remember if you are using native code is to 
>>>have GCC generate exception data for all your non-java code so that 
>>>faults in native code can be gracefully handled.
>> 
>> 
>> Can you explain what you mean by this? Doesn't this happen automatically
>> in C++?
>> 
>
>By default g++ does have exception handling enabled.  You can turn it 
>off with -fno-exception (sp?).
>
>If you are integrating legacy C or assembly code, you have to arrange it 
>so that the exception tables are generated.  Use -fexception 
>-fnon-call-exceptions I think for gcc.  For assembly things get much 
>more complicated (look at the libffi source for examples).
>
>David Daney
>
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