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

[Tonal <tonal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
>> Bob Rossi wrote:
>> Lack of support SEH for Win32 - like a lack of support signal api in POSIX.
> GCC has never supported SEH directly, although it is possible to throw 
> and catch SEH exceptions using RaiseException() and __try1 in <expt.h>.
I do not know of any Open Source project, which would be used 
__try1/__except1 of excpt.h.
And I have not seen any description of work with __try1/__except1
>> Without implementation of SEH serious systems such as OpenOffice, 
>> Firefox, Gimp, Apache HTTP Server, 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?
All these products provide a rich Plagin Api.
Without the support of SEH its use on win32 would be too dangerous.
-- 
Alexandr N. Zamaraev


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