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Re: [?] egcs increases C++ binary size dramatically



falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de (Falk Hueffner) writes:

> It seems that programs are larger even if they do not use exceptions
> at all (possibly even C programs). For those, it seems totally
> resonable to disable exceptions. It should probably even added to the
> policy, since it saves space.
> 
> 	Falk

That would make it unsafe to link code that has exceptions to libraries
that don't support compiled in.  (There is code added to be able to safely
unwind the stack, even if the library in question doesn't have any
exception code in it.)

Later,
	Dale
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