On 29/05/17 10:00, Flis, Przemyslaw (Nokia - PL/Wroclaw) wrote: > as far as I know, the way of handling exceptions "under the hood" is > not defined in C++ standard. In "Technical report on C++ > performance" from 2008, I've found two main approaches to exception > handling - so called "code" and "table" approach. Is there any way > to determine which is used by gcc compiler? I've never seen anything except "table". > Does it depend on platform (i.e. ARM, x86 etc.) or compiler version? It depends on the processor-speific ABI, which is defined by the operating system. For example, http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/elf/x86_64-abi-0.95.pdf at http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ -- Andrew Haley Java Platform Lead Engineer Red Hat UK Ltd. <https://www.redhat.com> EAC8 43EB D3EF DB98 CC77 2FAD A5CD 6035 332F A671