Re: [Patch/RFC] SEH exceptions for Win64

[Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>]

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:

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      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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