Alpha & sjlj-exceptions

Mon Feb 5 02:40:00 GMT 2001

Tom Tromey writes:
 > >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@commerceone.com> writes:
 > 
 > Jeff> I forgot to mention, I couldn't get exceptions to work on my
 > Jeff> alpha-linux build, so I had to revert to sjlj-exceptions in my
 > Jeff> local tree. That could be part of the reason some of you are
 > Jeff> having trouble on alpha.
 > 
 > Is this a problem just with Java or does it happen with C++ too?
 > Unless non-sjlj (what are they called, anyway?) exceptions are
 > supposed to work, I think we should change things so that sjlj
 > exceptions are chosen by default for the alpha.
Unless somone has ported libgcj to use range based exceptions on Alpha
it isn't going to work, and unless someone has changed configure.host
sjlj should be the default.
Andrew.