Re: Problem with exceptions on arm

[Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>]

Henrik Grindal Bakken wrote:
> "Martin Guy" <martinwguy@yahoo.it> writes:
> 
>> On 3/27/08, Henrik Grindal Bakken <hgb@ifi.uio.no> wrote:
>>>  Hi.  I have built myself a cross-compiler x86->arm-linuxeabi, with
>>>  which I'm having some problems.
>>>  When I run on target, a simple test program with exceptions fail:
>>>  $ /tmp/fnord
>>>  terminate called after throwing an instance of 'char*'
>>>  terminate called recursively
>>>  Aborted
>> Hi Henrik
>>   I just tried your test program on Debian "armel"'s native gnueabi
>> g++ (4.2.3), and it catches "hello" fine. Their gcc -v says:
>>
>> Using built-in specs.
>> Target: arm-linux-gnueabi
>> Configured with: ../src/configure -v
>> --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr
>> --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib
>> --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
>> --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2 --program-suffix=-4.2
>> --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr
>> --disable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --disable-sjlj-exceptions
>> --enable-checking=release --build=arm-linux-gnueabi
>> --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --target=arm-linux-gnueabi
>> Thread model: posix
>> gcc version 4.2.3 (Debian 4.2.3-2)
>>
>> In case that's any help
> 
> Thanks, Martin.  It does help a little, I guess (ruling out
> sjlj-exceptions, for one), but nothing springs at me from that
> configure line.  Could this be kernel related?

Yes, but it's much more likely to be libc releated.

Andrew.