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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: RFA: Remove unused support for target-based exception handling
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> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:19:11 -0800
> 
> This was kind of like finding something old and nasty in the back of
> the fridge.  :)

Could you (or someone else) perhaps tell the history of this code?
Like when it was introduced and for what purposes, and how it became
unused?

Also, doesn't the manual needs to be fixed if we remove this?