Re: [boost] Summer of Code 2008 [Graph version 2]

From: Michael Fawcett (michael.fawcett_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-27 22:05:50

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 9:39 PM, David Abrahams
<dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>  on Thu Mar 06 2008, "Michael Fawcett" <michael.fawcett-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Sebastian Redl
>  > <sebastian.redl_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>  >> Michael Fawcett wrote:
>  >>  > I forgot to mention before that this is using VS 2005 as the compiler.
>  >>  >  I'm pretty sure results for compilers with different exception
>  >>  > implementations would vary greatly.
>  >>  >
>  >>  I imagine that a Linux/GCC build would indeed show quite different
>  >>  results. Do you have the platform available, or a an easily
>  >>  compilable/runnable test case for someone else to run?
>  >
>  > I have cygwin available.  This might take some time to do though, I'll
>  > try to get around to it before the end of the week.
>
>  Cygwin won't tell us much; it uses essentially the same crappy SJLJ
>  exception implementation that VS uses in 32-bit mode, IIRC.

I don't know much about Cygwin, but the results were very different
from Cygwin/gcc vs Windows/VS 2005.  Why this was, I have no clue and
never investigated further.

--Michael Fawcett