On 21 April 2015 at 10:17, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Does the resulting binary work? It should do. > Doesn't "no-exceptions" break ABI > compatibility with the other object files and breaks when an exception > is thrown across the "no-exceptions" object? No, there's no effect on ABI. You can't catch it in the no-exceptions object, obviously, because 'catch' is not allowed in that file, but the exception simply passes through any frames without unwinding information, and can be caught further up the stack.