RE: C++ exceptions don't work from Cygwin DLLs?

[Robert Collins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Smith [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 12:03 PM

> Known problem which will not be solved until the exception 
> handling mechansim
> of libgcc.a lives in a .dll    What happens is that there are 
> too copies of the exception handling code.

So, if I understand this correctly:

fully static builds (such as cygwin's setup.exe) will need a libgcc.a
exception handling code, but dynamically linked builds will need to link
against a cyggcc-3.dll that all the C++ .dll's link against, that has
the exception handling code.

Rob