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I believe SEH (possibly for x86?) used a patented algorithm (Wikipedia says it expired in 2014), so it wasn't possible to actually do anything about it earlier

by mook 4y ago

I believe SEH (possibly for x86?) used a patented algorithm (Wikipedia says it expired in 2014), so it wasn't possible to actually do anything about it earlier than that.

gpderetta 4y ago
IIRC the Windows 64bit exception unwind table model was also different enough (and not well documented) from DWARF that it took a long time to implement it (I'm not sure if it is fully working yet).
dataflow 4y ago
I don't believe I was complaining about lack of SEH support pre-2014 anywhere. I just said I've run into issues around it with Clang today. Also note that SEH was never the sticking point for ABI compatibility. Even the mangling of "void foo()" wasn't something *nix compilers attempted compatibility with.