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From: Mathias Gaunard on 13 Apr 2008 09:23
On 13 avr, 20:45, marlow.and...(a)googlemail.com wrote:

> I thought that the itanium std was processor-specific but after a bit
> of googling
> it looks like it has emerged as a de facto std. But this is quite
> recent.
> For example, GCC only supports the itanium ABI as of version 4.x.y.
> This is fine for use by enthusiasts but I don't think it is of much
> help
> in a commercial env where typically much older versions of GCC are in
> use.

Having a standard ISO-approved ABI wouldn't solve that issue.


> And of course if the
> Microsoft compilers ignore it (suprise, suprise) then even if everyone
> else
> did support it there would still be an incompatibility between Unix
> and Windoze,

Windows defined its own (slower) ABI for exception handling so that it
could somehow propagate system exceptions.

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