Exception Personality Routine

Exception Personality Routine

[Perry Smith]

I got my stack flip stuff working but it does not completely solve my  
problem.  I put a catch in the function that flips the stack and it  
does a rethrow after restoring the stack to its normal place.  The  
problem is that even with all of my stack almost gone, the exception  
code still chews up too much stack and dies.  As I mentioned before,  
one routine, I believe it was _Unwind_RaiseException gobbles up 5600  
bytes of stack by itself.  The next routine down chews up another  
2K.  I have only 8K total to play with.

So, assuming I can write a personality routine (which looks like a  
rather big assumption), is there a way to get it into the exception  
tables?

On a different tact, I'm using gcc 4.0.2.  Has the exception handling  
routines been rewritten to consume less stack since 4.0.2?  I thought  
perhaps, since calls are being made to allocate space in the heap  
anyway, that the variables allocated on the stack could instead be  
allocated in the heap as well.

Thanks for your help,
Perry Smith ( pedz@easesoftware.com )
Ease Software, Inc. ( http://www.easesoftware.com )

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