John Fine wrote: > Andrew Haley wrote: >> >> The spec is at >> http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/abi-eh.html >> >> >> > Thanks, I also wanted similar info and haven't found time to even search. > But like a lot of similar documents that says "Itanium" and I'm > interested in x86-64. That doesn't matter. The ABI is shared. > I haven't taken the time to study that one yet, but other documents > where "Itanium" is used as the standard make it very hard to guess which > details remain the same in x86-64 vs. which details get changed for x86-64. > Short of the source code, is there any documentation (on exception > handling) either for x86-64 specifically or for the differences between > x86-64 and Itanium? With regard to the exception handling, all gcc targets follow the Itanium spec. The x86_64 ABI is at www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf Andrew.