From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: mrs@wrs.com (Mike Stump)
To: asharma@netscape.com, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: EGCS vs MSVC - exception handling
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 16:13:00 -0000
Message-id: <199801160013.QAA03363@kankakee.wrs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg00462.html

> To: egcs@cygnus.com
> From: Arun Sharma <asharma@netscape.com>
> Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:39:56 -0800

> Why would that be necessary ? Inside the signal handler, I know
> precisely which instruction generated the trap by looking into the
> sigcontext.

Bingo, that's it.  Unfortunately, one needs to look at the current PC
and only when the top of the stack is hit (the original signal handler
frame), then switch over to the sigcontext.  gcc hasn't been taught
about this yet.

You can get it to work, by using -fsjlj-exceptions.