Enable DWARF2 exceptions on Alpha?

Mon May 21 13:51:00 GMT 2001

On 2001年5月21日, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > carefully at the new EH. I don't know if anyone is looking at these, and
> > I have neither the time nor expertise to do much about it right now :(
>> Okay, I understand. What I was trying to determine was whether there
> was some special reason that the branch and the trunk were different.

I don't think so. We turned on sjlj-exceptions long before the branch.
That probably should have disappeared during the EH merge.
> If you look at the PPC changes I just checked in, you'll see a new
> file called include/dwarf2-signal.h. I believe that if sjlj is turned
> off and this file is used to catch signals the Alpha should work in
> exactly the same way as the PPC.

The alpha build currently aborts on any `throw' statement. I believe that
is completely unrelated to signal handling. When/if that is fixed
your PPC patch should help too.
Jeff