Hi Andrew, On 10/20/07, Andrew Haley <aph-gcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sunzir Deepur writes: > > I have noticed that glibc has extensive use of the _Unwind_Resume procedure > > Can anyone please explain me what is it ? why is it needed for C programs > > It's needed for pthread_cancel. > It resumes unwinding after a cleanup. > > http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/abi-eh.html > http://www.mit.edu/~sipb-iap/2004/inside-c/day3/exceptions.html Is the winding relevant only to C++ exception catching ? If so, why would it be needed when compiling simple C apps ? Thank you (and sorry for posting initialy at gcc@xxxxxxxxxxx), Sunzir
