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GCC exception handling flavours and plain C code?

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  1. GCC is available in several variations (SJLJ, DW2, SEH). When compiling plain C code (therefore either assuming or explicitly specifying -fno-exceptions), does it make any difference which GCC variation is used?

  2. Further I assume, that if my plain C code was to link to a C++ library which may throw exceptions, then it would matter which GCC variation I use. In that case, I should use the GCC variation that matches with the C++ code exception flavour, I should enable -fexceptions when compiling my plain C code, and the exceptions could
    then propagate over the C code?

posted Feb 18, 2015 by anonymous

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