On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 11:47:04AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Oct 26 02:25, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:14:01AM +0400, Alexey Pavlov wrote:
>> >/usr/include/w32api/winnt.h:3541:20: error: previous definition of
>> >?struct _EXCEPTION_REGISTRATION_RECORD?
>> > typedef struct _EXCEPTION_REGISTRATION_RECORD {
>> > ^
>> >In file included from /work/Cygwin/winsup/cygwin/exception.h:15:0,
>> > from /work/Cygwin/winsup/cygwin/cygtls.cc:20:
>> >/work/Cygwin/winsup/cygwin/include/exceptions.h:109:17: error: invalid
>> >type in declaration before ?;? token
>> > } exception_list;
>> > ^
>> >/work/Cygwin/winsup/cygwin/../Makefile.common:43: recipe for target
>> >'cygtls.o' failed
>> >make[3]: *** [cygtls.o] Error 1
>>
>> Feel free to provide patches. Simple compilation issues do not
>> require copyright assignment.
>
>I applied a patch. The redefinition of _exception_list to
>_EXCEPTION_REGISTRATION_RECORD for x86_64 was cruft from a very early
>"just build, goddammit" porting stage. Later on it turned out that
>x86_64 doesn't use frame based exception handling anyway so all the
>code using _exception_list is unused on x86_64 anyway.
>
>I also changed the public header <exceptions.h> so that it only
>applies if !x86_64.
>
>That leads to a question:
>
>Why on earth do we have a *public* header exposing the exception
>handling on a certain CPU? This isn't a standard header, neither POSIX
>nor Linux nor BSD systems have it.
>
>If there isn't a compelling reason to keep the header, I would opt
>for folding the content into the private Cygwin header exception.h
>and drop the public header entirely.
I think its existence predates me. I vote to nuke it.
cgf
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