Bug#540782: Recent switch to Dwarf2 exception handling breaks compatibility with upstream Mingw-64

2020-12-01 Thread Stefan Weil
Am 01.12.20 um 21:00 schrieb Stephen Kitt: Hi Stefan, Thanks for the feedback, one of the reasons I made the change was to see if it would cause problems for anyone, before the Debian 11 freeze... The dilemma I’m faced with now is that MSYS2 and Fedora and others have switched to Dwarf2 for

Bug#540782: Recent switch to Dwarf2 exception handling breaks compatibility with upstream Mingw-64

2020-12-01 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi Stefan, On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 20:24:07 +0100, Stefan Weil wrote: > The recent switch from SJLJ exception handling to Dwarf2 breaks the > compatibility with upstream Mingw-w64 which still sticks to SJLJ: > https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/wiki2/Exception%20Handling/. > > It is now no longer

Bug#540782: Recent switch to Dwarf2 exception handling breaks compatibility with upstream Mingw-64

2020-12-01 Thread Stefan Weil
The recent switch from SJLJ exception handling to Dwarf2 breaks the compatibility with upstream Mingw-w64 which still sticks to SJLJ: https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/wiki2/Exception%20Handling/. It is now no longer possible to use for example the Mingw-w64 cross packages from Cygwin for