Re: Use of libobjc from gcc 4.1 with MinGW

[Xavier Glattard]

Nicola Pero <nicola.pero <at> meta-innovation.com> writes:

> 
> 
> >I don't have *any* experience in building dll 
> >And building gcc-libobjc as a dll might break some other thing...
> >So i give up and let this task to others, even if i could not use
> >'native exceptions'.
> 
> Why do you need gcc-libobjc for 'native exceptions' ?  

For esthetic reason ;-)

And because i think compiler managed exceptions is an improvement
over macro based exceptions.

> Are there any missing changes in gnustep-objc ? 
> We could import a new fresh libobjc
> into gnustep-objc to get any missing changes. 

Why does gnustep-libobjc prevent from using native exception ?
Is it a mingw issue or a 'missing change' ?

Do i miss something ?

> I'm not sure if you can reliably throw native exceptions across DLLs though,
> so even that might still not work, but you may want to try and see. 

I guess it might depend on the exception system used by the compiler...
(sjlj...?)
But that needs to be tested :-)

thanks :-)

Xavier