From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Henderson To: Horst von Brand Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: exception handling poll Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 13:22:00 -0000 Message-id: <19971017103556.26814@dot.cygnus.com> References: <199710162023.QAA29778@tweedledumb.cygnus.com> <199710171328.KAA10278@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00719.html On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 10:28:40AM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > BTW, as has been said several times before: You _can't_ ever trow through C > code, unless that C code is _very_ *very* carefully written... Not exactly. What you mean is that you can't throw through arbitrary C code and expect to be able to continue on as if nothing happened, and eventually call back down into the same library. But without frame unwind info in C code -- libraries in particular -- you can't even gracefully shut down an application. r~