Yup :-( It's also one of the things hampering full-blown C++ support on the
Palm OS.
Rgds,
Jun-Kiat Lam
Metrowerks Technical Support
At 05:48 PM 8/5/2000 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>My guess is the answer is "just because". That exception handling system was
>designed with CodeWarrior Pro in mind, where the existance of globals is no
>problem. It just doesn't translate well to the Palm.
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>Oliver King-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08/05/2000 10:47:02 AM
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>Please respond to "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Sent by: Oliver King-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>cc: (Keith Rollin/US/PALM)
>Subject: Exceptions and global memory
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>Does anyone know why CW uses global memory for the exception handling (it
>seems to use about 2 bytes per try catch block). I know Palm offers its
>own exceptions based on setjump, but I am more currious as to why the
>compiler needs the global space.
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