Re: [Gnustep-cvs] Commit Update

[David Ayers]

> +       * configure.ac: Detect native exception handler support in the
> +       compiler, and set HAS_OBJC_EXCEPTIONS to yes if it's there.
> +       * configure: Regenerated.
> +       * config.make.in: New variable HAS_OBJC_EXCEPTIONS.
> +       * common.make: If HAS_OBJC_EXCEPTIONS is set, add
> +       -fobjc-exceptions to the ObjC flags.
> +       

Hello Nicola,

I'm not sure we want to do this in this way.  Mixing -fobjc-exceptions 
code with old style exception code will most likely cause serious 
problems.  (AFAICT, unlike Apple, we actually use GCC's native exception 
handling features already where as Apple still does setjmp/longjmp for 
the new constructs for backward compatibility.)  An update in gcc 
shouldn't require you to recompile everything.  I think we should only 
activate the feature if explicitly requested by the user as a 
./configure option.

Or did I miss something?

Cheers,
David