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Re: Missing GNU construct for compiling libtcl80?
- To: vischne at ibm dot net
- Subject: Re: Missing GNU construct for compiling libtcl80?
- From: ian at cygnus dot com
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 18:17:04 -0500 (EST)
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- References: <199803230034.AAA92398@out2.ibm.net>
>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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