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

[Earnie Boyd <earnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting 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.

I think your confused about SEH[1] which is a Microsoft invention using 
__try/__except.  MinGW has never supported it.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680657(VS.85).aspx

Earnie

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