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RE: Slowness problem due to sjlj-exceptions for Octave
On 07 September 2007 14:44, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how MSVC handles unwinding through API frames?
>
> MSVC implements C++ exception handling with SEH. And there is/was a
> GSoC project to port SEH to gcc, but I don't know if it went anywhere.
Right, so IOW, the SEH support does all the required unwinding for us.
Ultimately I guess that's the only solution that's going to be both complete
and correct. (The only other thing I could even imagine would be some kind of
hideous .pdb abuse using the M$ official symbol files to extract the frame and
FPO information for frames in API functions...)
cheers,
DaveK
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