From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: Bastiaan Bakker <Bastiaan.Bakker@Harbinger.nl>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Exception Handling is thread safe?
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 11:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25601.890595996@hurl.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3510EFB5.1F9DA6D@Harbinger.nl>
In message < 3510EFB5.1F9DA6D@Harbinger.nl >you write:
> On the OmniORB project pages I read that egcs' exception handling is
> not thread safe but that it can be fixed with a patch from Teemu Torma.
More correctly, the current releases are not MT thread safe; the
current development sources have thread safe exception handling.
> Now that egcs 1.02 is released I wonder whether this patch has been
> incorporated.
The MT safe EH code will not be integrated into the egcs-1.0.x releases;
it will appear in the egcs-1.1 release.
> the same patch. Should I use g++ 2.8.1 for multi threading code instead,
> or does it have the same problems?
gcc-2.8 has the same problems (and many more) in regards to exception
handling. I do not recommend it.
> PS. Could the egcs project page maintainer please add a few lines about
> this subject to the caveats page, I guess I'm not the only one
> interested to know about egcs' thread safety.
It's pretty rare that we get questions about this issue.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-03-22 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-03-19 12:55 Bastiaan Bakker
1998-03-22 11:46 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
1998-03-23 10:41 ` erwin
1998-03-23 16:39 ` Andi Kleen
1998-03-23 15:11 Kaz Kylheku
1998-03-23 16:09 ` Joe Buck
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