LDC

[Daniel Kozak]

Maybe just some configure switch, which enabled/disabled SEH when 
compiling LDC


On Friday, 14 September 2012 at 08:02:51 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> 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?