TaxCut and C++ exception handling

[Ori Pessach]

Thanks - this is the information I was looking for.

-Ori Pessach

John K. Hohm wrote:
> Ori Pessach wrote:
> 
>>No - I get the goal of the project. What I'm not clear about is where to
>>draw the line between system components and application components. Is
>>msvcrt.dll shipped with Windows, or with Windows applications?
> 
> 
> It does come with recent Windows.  However, many programs install an updated 
> version of msvcrt.dll, since it is a redistributable for Microsoft Visual 
> Studio 5 and 6.  Visual Studio 7 has switched to msvcr70.dll et. al.
> 
> As of Windows XP, msvcrt.dll is part of the operating system.  It is now under 
> system file protection, so it cannot be replaced by a normal application.  
> Apparently as a tribute to this, they changed the description from "Microsoft 
> (R) C Runtime Library" to "Windows NT CRT DLL".
> 
> Some programs that don't depend on having fixes in a certain version of 
> msvcrt.dll will depend on the version from Windows; this includes most programs 
> developed with VC6 specifically for Windows XP, and all programs developed with 
> recent versions of the MinGW Win32 port of GCC.
> 
> Therefore, we really do need a complete msvcrt.dll in Wine.
>