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From: Brian Gough <bjg@network-theory.co.uk>
To: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Exception Support
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:27:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874pehz0yz.wl%bjg@network-theory.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ECEBD13-EFAD-4117-AC8D-E4929B455767@comhem.se>

At Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:17:22 +0100,
Tommy Nordgren wrote:
> I suggest that the configure script should be set up so that make
> will build the GSL library with C++ exception support if
> possible. (C code must be compiled with the flag -fexceptions under
> gcc) I've noticed that configure don't turn on this flag by default.
> (If a c library is NOT compiled with -fexecptions, any exception
> thrown across a c function call on the stack, will always terminate
> the application)

Thanks for the suggestion.  It probably would be more convenient, but
changing the autoconf defaults tends to cause unexpected problems so I
prefer to stick with them.  

I'll add a note in the INSTALL file to make the -fexceptions option
more prominent.  Presumably most distributions should be adding this
anyway.

-- 
Brian Gough

      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-17 14:17 Tommy Nordgren
2007-12-17 17:27 ` Brian Gough [this message]

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