From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: slouken@devolution.com
Cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com, highlander@lokigames.com
Subject: Re: Large code size?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:46:00 -0000
Message-ID: <199903250725.IAA00726@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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> Also, when linking with either cc1 or cc1plus, and specifying
> -fno-exceptions, the exception.o object from libgcc.a is still
> linked in.
> 
> Ideas?

If you use ::operator new, it might throw exceptions, so you get some
exception routines in. Also, it always has to provide the frame
unwinding code for the shared library, regardless of whether some
object files never throw exceptions and don't support unwinding.

Regards,
Martin