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Hello bearophile,

> Robert Jacques:
> 
>> The patent seems to be Borlands's:
>> USPTO patent #5,628,016 Patent held by Borland on compiler support
>> for SEH.
>> From a Wine wiki page:
>> http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilerExceptionSupport
>> It does seem to expire on June 15, 2014, though and I assume
>> DigitalMars  has a license, so a LLVM fork is not unreasonable.
>> 
> On Windows G++ supports exceptions. I have two questions:
> 
> 1) Do you know how they do this? Do they have a license? If they have
> a licence why don't LLVM people too have it?
> 

The patent holder has refused licenses to all OSS projects. What GCC does 
is use a different system (something to do with tables). The patent is strictly 
for SEH.

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