documentation on "sjlj exceptions", DWARF2, etc?

Tue Dec 11 18:10:00 GMT 2001

On 11 Dec 2001, Adam Megacz wrote:
> So DWARF2 and SJLJ are two different "EH personalities"?

No, they are two implementations of the EH specfication. The
lang-specific personalities are orthogonal to this... they don't care
which EH model they use.
> Has there been any work on DWARF2 for MinGW? If not, I'm not planning
> on starting it (grin), but if somebody's gotten it working for C++,
> I'll try to make it work with GCJ.

Try the cygwin list. I know at least Chris Faylor was looking at it once.
The problems to solve are about the same for cygwin as mingw.
There was some discussion on the gcc list IIRC, but I can't find it in the
archives.
Here's an ancient but interesting post from this very list:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q1/msg00016.html
Jeff