From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: John Carr <jfc@mit.edu>
To: Per Bothner <bothner@cygnus.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: exception handling poll 
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 05:45:00 -0000
Message-id: <199710201245.IAA23827@contents-vnder-pressvre.MIT.EDU>
References: <199710200238.TAA08527@cygint.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00866.html

> I understood John to mean that using setjmp would satisfy the
> requirement of no cost in code that does not *contain a handler",
> while still allowing exceptions to pass through such code.

When I sent my mail I forgot that local variables with destructors
require exception handlers to run those destructors so most C++ code
is not handler-free and setjmp will introduce significant code
expansion.