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[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 08:25 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2012-09-13 16:40, Don Clugston wrote:
> 
> > That sounds paranoid to me. I believe the patent is essentially a
> > workaround for the absence of thread-local variables on 16-bit Windows.
> 
> BTW, regardless if it's under a patent or not we can't force them to 
> implement SEH in LLVM.
> 
> The description of the patent just says that it's about a system for 
> compilers that allow support runtime exception handling.

Presumably the patent (if it exists and is enforceable) only applies in
the USA. So for the rest of the world there is absolutely no need to
worry about it. Only people in the USA have to worry. Which means one
version for in the USA and one version for everywhere else?

-- 
Russel.
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