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

Bob Rossi wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:27:54PM -0500, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:

>>>> Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
>>>>> KNOWN PROBLEMS
>>>>>
>>>>> -Exceptions can't be thrown through foreign frames.
> 
> How do you think this effects qt or wxwidgets programs? If either use
> the underling win32 native widgets, I suppose they could be candidates
> for being broken?

Can anyone confirm that QT, wxWidgets, or some other popular toolkit or 
native Windows program depends on being able to throw C++-language 
exceptions through the Win32 callback callers?

If we need to take some alternate course of action, that is fine; but I 
need some evidence first of the potential negative impact of this.

Then I also need to know what the alternative is.  There's no real point 
in making a release if we know the ABI will be broken a few months 
later.  Would people prefer that the final release is delayed?  Or 
perhaps it should remain in a 'Tech Preview' state until this problem is 
resolved?

I'm willing to be convinced to do something other than what's been 
planned, which is part of the purpose of this protracted testing and 
feedback process.  But I need good reasons that include evidence, and a 
working alternative.

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