Re: [boost] [GCC 4.6] Problems catching exceptions

Subject: Re: [boost] [GCC 4.6] Problems catching exceptions
From: Jim Bell (Jim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-03 15:29:17

On 1:59 PM, Lars Viklund wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 11:44:25AM -0500, Beman Dawes wrote:
>> Although GCC 4.6 isn't released yet, I've been getting good results on
>> a non-Boost project with the weekly MinGW build.
>>
>> See http://www.equation.com/servlet/equation.cmd?call=fortran for the
>> prebuilt MinGW binaries.
>>
>> Is there anyone out there who knows enough about GCC and MinGW to tell
>> if this bug is already known?
> It might be beneficial to test against the mingw-w64 binaries, as that
> tends to be a common choice for gcc on Windows. They also have an IRC
> channel on OFTC if questions arise.
>
> There seems to have been quite a few complaints on here and on -users
> about mingw breaking recently, do we have any platform champion for it
> or is it second-tier?

I have a mingw-64 test platform that runs the trunk regression set, GCC
4.6. (And fwiw I run a MinGW-32 regression set w/GCC-4.4.)

I'm glad to try something if you send it to me.