Re: [Boost-users] How to store on exception object ?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] How to store on exception object ?
From: Anthony Williams (anthony.ajw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-06 17:44:47

Emil Dotchevski <emil_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Emil Dotchevski <emil_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> I'm assuming MSVC 9.0 and newer will just work as soon as the
>>> appropriate exception_info_offset value is defined in
>>> clone_current_exception_msvc.cpp. Anthony?
>>
>> Yes. Your implementation looks reasonable. It's worth noting that it
>> won't work on WIN64 though.
>
> Thanks once again for the original code.
>
> Good to know it's 32-bit only. What is the reason for that? Is the
> 64-bit MSVC exception handling code totally different, or does it only
> differ by offsets and other magic numbers?

The offsets and magic numbers are different. Also, some of the values
that are pointers in the 32-bit code are 32-bit offsets from a
separately-supplied base pointer in the 64-bit code.

Anthony
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