Re: Fwd: [Bug c++/14563] octave built under Cygwin very slow]

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Aug-2005, Shai Ayal wrote:

| I think the problem is that the --disable-sjlj-exceptions is not a
| compiler flag, rather it is a flag you give when you compile the
| compiler. Thus to test it one would have to get the souces of GCC
| 3.3.3 and compile it on cygwin with the above flag, than use this
| compiler to compile octave. This is a very time consuming effort since
| compilation on cygwin are painfully slow -- on my P4 with winXP it
| take several hours to compile octave -- I don't know exactly how many
| since I always just leave it overnight

Does the Cygwin DLL also use exception handling?  If so, I suspect
that you would need to compile it with the same compiler so that the
exception handling model matches the one used by applications that
depend on the Cygwin DLL.  But I'm not sure of the details, so that
might not be required.

jwe