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Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] [Re]move w32api/include/excpt.h
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: Steven Edwards <steven_ed4153 at yahoo dot com>, Danny Smith <danny_r_smith_2001 at yahoo dot co dot nz>, cygwin-patches <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>, mingw-dvlpr <mingw-dvlpr at lists dot sourceforge dot net>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 18:54:43 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] [Re]move w32api/include/excpt.h
--- Steven Edwards <steven_ed4153@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The w32api and mingw-runtime each conatin a file
> > called excpt.h
> > The one in the w32api just defines __try, __except,
> > __finally as
> > no-ops and lets some code "at least" compile
>
> Kinda off topic
Not at all off topic.
> but is there a plan to add real
> Windows SEH support to Mingw? I know this is asked a
> lot but I've never really heard a good answer.
When someone has time to work on it, or someone submits a patch, yes.
> Untill
> Mingw has it, ReactOS wont be able to use most Windows
> drivers.
>
IIRC, I heard ors that ReactOS was working on modifications for GCC and/or
binutils to accomplish that.
Earnie.
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