Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 15:01:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>,
        DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Bugs in 2.8.0?
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On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Andrew Crabtree wrote:

> It appears that in order for exception handling to work (as it is
> defaulted), you must replace ld.exe with collect2.

There has to be a better way to get exceptions working than ti use
collect2.  I urge everybody who is working on this to look for a way
that avoids the collect2 solution.  collect2 is nothing but trouble
BIG TIME.  I have some very sad experience using it on SunOS, and you
can check the archives of GCC-related news groups for threads which
report problems and get answered ``that's because you use collect2''.

Unless I miss something obvious, we shouldn't need to use the collect2
hack since we have full control of the library and the way startup
code initializes the runtime environment.  Changing some of these
should make exceptions work.