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From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: egcs and exceptions
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On Thu, 22 Jan 1998, John Polstra wrote:

> In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.980121185653.8321B-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>,
> John Fieber  <jfieber@indiana.edu> wrote:
> > I just built egcs in eager anticipation of working exceptions. 
> > No dice (just an Abort Trap).  Is this something that only works
> > on -current? (I'm running 2.2.5)
> 
> Could you please try recompiling your programs with
> "-fsjlj-exceptions" on the command line?  I think that might help.  If
> it does, I'll add a patch to the port to make it the default.

That does the trick, at least on a simple test case.

Do you also have a magic command line option to make some form of
automatic template instantiation work?  :)  Even brain dammaged,
bloat producing methods would be helpful.  Manually instantiating
everything gets ugly really fast with STL.

-john