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. -- O< ascii ribbon - stop html email! - www.asciiribbon.org
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