[R-SIG-Win] Windows toolchain update: seh vs sjlj

Avraham Adler avraham.adler at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 03:28:54 CEST 2015


On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.ooms at stat.ucla.edu> wrote:
> The good news: the mingw-w64 authors suggest to move away from the
> SJLJ exception model, and instead use DWARF on win32 and SEH on win64.
> These exception models are the default in mingw-w64 since gcc 4.8
> because they are more reliable and performant.

Forgive the possibly ignorant question, but is there a reason not to
use SEH for both 32- and 64-bit Windows?

Avi



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