From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31238 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 2010 20:19:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 31204 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Dec 2010 20:19:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il (HELO mtaout22.012.net.il) (80.179.55.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:18:57 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LD800H00AUQJP00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:18:08 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.142.197]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LD800GV8B23VU90@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:18:04 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:19:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: RFA: NEWS entry for next-over-throw patch In-reply-to: To: Tom Tromey Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83hbel1iwm.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83zkse10cl.fsf@gnu.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-12/txt/msg00146.txt.bz2 > From: Tom Tromey > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org > Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:39:00 -0700 > > >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Eli> Does this mean the feature will only work with GCC-compiled programs? > Eli> If so, perhaps we should say that more explicitly. > > It will work with any program that uses exceptions where the exception > unwinder defines a particular debugging hook. > > Right now this hook only appears in libgcc. > > It would probably work right now with other compilers on systems using > a new-enough libgcc. E.g., it might work for other compilers on Fedora. Then I guess your wording is okay as it is. Thanks.