Re: [Mingw-users] GCC 4.3.0 20080502 (alpha) Released - Please help us test it!

[Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:36:36PM +0700, Tonal wrote:
> Bob Rossi wrote:
> >>> -Exceptions can't be thrown through foreign frames.
> > What exactly does this mean? What will be the exact limitation put on
> > the mingw community?
> Lack of support SEH for Win32 - like a lack of support signal api in POSIX.
> 
> Without implementation of SEH serious systems such as OpenOffice, 
> Firefox, Gimp, PostgreSQL, will remain forced to use MSVC or Intel C++.

Yeah, that's why I said it seemed like a "toy" release. Why would mingw
want to alienate its most famous ports? I just don't get it, but,
hopefully the guys doing it do.

Bob Rossi

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