From: ian@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Missing GNU construct for compiling libtcl80?
6 Apr 1998 16:07:12 -0700
Message-ID: <199803292317.SAA18524.cygnus.gnu-win32@tweedledumb.cygnus.com>
References: <199803230034.AAA92398@out2.ibm.net>
To: vischne@ibm.net
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com

>I have been working at debugging a gnu makefile for tcl8, and I
>got an error for the following code in tclWin32Dll.c:

>===============================================================
>    try {
>	alloca(TCL_WIN_STACK_THRESHOLD);
>	return 1;
>    } except (1) {}
>===============================================================

>It looks as though the next frontier in GNU gcc compilers is the
>Microshaft `try - except' construct.

I don't see that in my copy of tclWin32Dll.c, but in general you are
correct.  gcc needs to learn the try/except construct when running on
Windows.  What it needs to do is documented in the cygwin32
exceptions.h header file.  It would be great if somebody worked on
this.

Ian
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