[releases] OOo 3 Windows problem (cppu::getCaughtException)

[Stephan Bergmann]

In case you have not yet noticed, 
<http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=88671> and 
<http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=22279> 
describe a potentially big problem of OOo 3 (incl. OOo 3.0 beta) on 
Windows machines where the Microsoft C/C++ runtime used by OOo 3.0 
(msvcr90.dll et al) does not happen to be already installed system-wide: 
 Any time OOo code calls the OOo function cppu::getCaughtException (and 
there are in the hundreds of such calls across our code base) OOo might 
crash.  One such scenario is described in issue 88671, others are most 
probably waiting to happen.

However, any kind of fix for this appears to be far from trivial (see 
<http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=22279> again 
and the follow-up 
<http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=22295>), each 
requiring rather weeks than days, with unclear outcome.

In short, it is unclear for me whether and how this could or should be 
addressed for OOo 3.0 beta.  (But a fix will of course have to be in 
place for OOo 3.0 final.)

-Stephan

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