Re: [ECOS] eCos and C++ exceptions

[Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:38:50PM -0700, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> I'm using the arm-elf toolchain, which has a reasonably efficient SJLJ
> implementation for C++ exceptions (as long as exception specification
> checking is turned off). Does the eCos thread structure support this form of
> exception handling?
> 
> C++ is a pretty crippled language if you can't at least rely upon bad_alloc
> as a way of aborting constructors. In particular, you can't use any of the
> standard container classes, or strings.
> 
> I understand that nothing in eCos is intended to throw exceptions, or be
> safe in the presence of exceptions thrown by application code, but I can
> deal with that, as long as the eCos gives each thread its own exception
> context chain.
> 
> If eCos doesn't provide this support, has anyone thought about what it would
> take to add it?

eCosCentric have implemented full C++ exception support in their eCosPro
product.

There has also been some efforts by Oyvind Harboe. See the email
archives.

        Andrew

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