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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
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At 06:55 PM 1/28/99 GMT, you wrote:
>There is currently *NO* C++
>development ongoing in the FSF GCC distribution.

Who do we have to thank for this?

>If exception handling doesn't work with djgpp port of EGCS due to bugs in
>EGCS, then the issue should be reported to egcs folks (is there a djgpp 
>egcs maintainer).

Haven't the foggiest.

>If djgpp egcs port suffers from EH problems and is using dwarf2 unwind,
>perhaps you ought to try out setjmp/longjmp based EH and see if that
>works. This is essentially what we ended up doing for all the win32 
>ports.

A year ago I seem to recall someone saying they'd get gcc/egcs up to being
reasonably compatible with ANSI C++ in a year...which has now elapsed. Has
somebody been reneging?

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