Re: [Patch/RFC] SEH exceptions for Win64

[Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>]

Gerald,

it is ok ?

Tristan.

On Jul 19, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Tristan Gingold wrote:

> 
> On Jul 19, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> 
>> On 07/19/2012 08:30 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> 
>>> No regression on i386 GNU/Linux.
>>> Committed.
>> 
>> Nice.  Is this NEWS / docs --or wherever release notes are written-- worthy?
>> 
>> Something like this, borrowed from your own words:
>> 
>> On Win64, the compiler now emits SEH unwind info.  GCC exceptions now propagate
>> through any code, including code produced by MSVC.
> 
> To clarify, GCC emits SEH unwind info since 4.7, so I propose slightly modified words:
> 
> Index: htdocs/gcc-4.8/changes.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.8/changes.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.6
> diff -c -r1.6 changes.html
> *** htdocs/gcc-4.8/changes.html	17 Jul 2012 19:47:31 -0000	1.6
> --- htdocs/gcc-4.8/changes.html	19 Jul 2012 10:15:13 -0000
> ***************
> *** 86,91 ****
> --- 86,97 ----
>      libraries.  This includes the system libraries and startup modules.</li>
>    </ul>
> 
> +   <ul>
> +     <li>On x86_64-mingw32, exceptions propagate through any code,
> +     including code produced by MSVC (the GCC runtime now uses SEH on
> +     this target)</li>
> +   </ul>
> + 
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