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

[James R. Phillips]

--- "John W. Eaton"  wrote:

> 
> 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

I am forwarding this to the address@hidden mailing list so that the cygwin
experts can comment.

Jim Phillips