seh_try_macros2-00

[David Fraser]

Gregory M. Turner wrote:

>On Wednesday 14 May 2003 11:08 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
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>>(I don't want to discourage you, but I think you will eventually come
>>to realize that the only way to make this work right is to do it in
>>the compiler)
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>
>Don't worry, we are in agreement on this.  I have spent a fair amount of time 
>trying to decide whether this problem is fixable without such a measure, and 
>I suspect the answer is no, or, at least, not without doing an inordinate 
>amount of work and writing lots of asm.
>
>[snip]
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>When/if gcc does it, great, we just use the implementation of __TRY in terms 
>of __try, we don't have to change a thing.  If, for example, after some 
>research, the -fasync-unwind-tables thing pans out, that's fine too; we can 
>add that in, but not all platforms support this, even for gcc, so we still 
>need a pure-C portable alternative to be supported by wine to some reasonable 
>extent.
>
Has anyone investigated what work needs to be done for gcc to support 
these kinds of try/except things?