Compiling w/o gcc?

Jason Merrill jason_merrill@redhat.com
Thu Apr 5 16:07:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Edwards <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com> writes:

>> Obviously this is probably somewhat dangerous.  Are there
>> any known pitfalls with doing this?  It seems to me that as long as
>> I have headers that define the necessary bits (I do, from our vendor),
>> it should be ok to compile libstdc++ with those and link with the
>> vendor's runtime library.

> Exception handling might be very very funky.  Unless your vendor follows
> the same spec (which was designed to be vendor-neutral).

I wouldn't think so.  The library outside of libsupc++ should only rely on
standard C++ EH semantics.  Anything else is a bug.

Jason



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