Re: Compiling C++ modules

[Avi Kivity]

Bongani Hlope wrote:
> To enable stack unwinding for exception handling, extra exception-related 
> information about each function needs to be available for each stack frame. 
> This information describes which destructors need to be called (so that local 
> objects can be cleaned up), indicates whether the current function has a try 
> block, and lists which exceptions the associated catch clauses can handle.
>
> Take a look at a typical OOPS trace and tell me if that will fit in a 4k stack 
> with C++ and stack unwinding.
>
>   
C++ on Linux does not put any information on the stack for exception 
handling purposes. Windows implementations do that but (a) I think the 
Windows kernel has a 12K stack (b) Linux is unlikely to use the 
Microsoft C++ compiler.

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