On 29.08.2016 0:25, Evgeny Grin wrote:
>> The difference is *only* in catching the exception (i.e. ensuring
>> that in case the debugger isn't there, the library will catch its own
>> exception and "handle" it by way of quietly dropping it; unhandled
>> exceptions cause the OS to terminate a process), for which we have to
>> use VEH, because SEH is not available for MinGW.
> 
> SEH is not available for x86 32-bit (patents!), but I have at least GCC
> 4.8 x64 builds with SEH.

There's some kind of confusion regarding the meaning of SEH support in GCC,
i think.
When it is said that GCC has x86_64 SEH support, it means SEH of C++
exceptions. AFAIU (CMIIAW), that does no include the try/except constructs.


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