> On x864 Linux -fasynchronous-unwind-tables is the default. That is > probably sufficient to make your test case work.
The testcase g++.dg/torture/except-1.C you recently added to the testsuite does not pass at all if -fnon-call-exceptions is not specified (and does not pass with optimization if -fno-delete-dead-exceptions is not specified). -- Eric Botcazou