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

["Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaron77thyme@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

It is true that MinGW GCC does not support SEH, but this fact is not 
related to this restriction, which relates to C++ exceptions only.

GCC has never supported SEH directly, although it is possible to throw 
and catch SEH exceptions using RaiseException() and __try1 in <expt.h>.

> Without implementation of SEH serious systems such as OpenOffice, 
> Firefox, Gimp, PostgreSQL, will remain forced to use MSVC or Intel C++.

I'm confused.  None of these pieces of software require compiler SEH 
support.  Are you talking about something else here?


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