Re: [avr-gcc-list] using exceptions

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Georg-Johann Lay <address@hidden> wrote:
> Kövesdi György schrieb:
>
>
>> I am using avr-g++ for building my projects for avr and i am happy with
>> it. :-)
>> But i would need exception support, and could not find how to get it work.
>> :-(
>> I found some mails in the archive (dated many years ago) about possibility
>> of
>> building libstdc++ or libsupc++ with exception support, but could not find
>> how to do it. Reportedly it uses 10...20 kbytes of text, which would be
>> acceptable.
>>
>> Currently i have gcc 4.6.2 sources, and have tried the options
>> --enable-sjlj-exceptions,
>> --with-exceptions, --with-rtti, --enable-libstdc++, etc... no one helped.
>
>
> libstdc++ is turned off in configury, for example configure.ac reads
>
> # Disable libstdc++-v3 for some systems.
> case "${target}" in
>  [...]
>  avr-*-*)
>    noconfigdirs="$noconfigdirs target-libstdc++-v3"
>    ;;
> esac
>
> This is current trunk. There were some changes not very long ago.

Would it be reasonable to expect at least libsupc++?  That would be
a useful start...

> Anyway, you may want to use something like
>
> $ grep -lr avr .
>
> to find and inspect all the places where avr-configury is special.
>
> If you get it to build, I'd recomment that you run the C++ testsuite
> to ensure that you got a reasonably working library that is not
> completely useless because, e.g. of missing support in the avr backend.
>
> As C++ is not completely functional for avr, I don't know if there is
> anything missing in the avr backend like for exceptions, unwind, etc.
> and if the compiler is fit enough to build llibstdc++.
>
> For questions in that field the address@hidden mailing list is
> a better place than here...
>
> Good luck
>
> Johann
>
>
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