kernel/eka/compsupp/aehabi/Readme
author mikek
Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:53:50 +0100
branchGCC_SURGE
changeset 188 38a7352e23d3
parent 0 a41df078684a
permissions -rw-r--r--
1) Fix for Bug 3117 - [GCCE] Missing symbols in linkage of template_ekern.exe 2) Adjusting e32cia.h to the fix for bug 3115, changset 184: 0e2270015475, which conflicted with the fix for bug 3114, changeset 182: eb3b9806166e

Exceptions library release 1.01.

This source code is intended to be compliant with release 1.0 of the EHABI. 

The following defects against the previous (1.0) release have been fixed:

1) The personality routines were checking handler table entry descriptor
ranges using virtual r14 not virtual r15. Consequently if the entry contained
two or more descriptors with matching ranges, and the first was a cleanup,
subsequent descriptors would incorrectly fail the range check because the
cleanup code legitimately corrupted r14 (and hence virtual r14; virtual r15
is preserved).

2) The runtime library would call abort() instead of terminate() under this
sequence of events:
i)   The program installs an unexpected exception handler (set_unexpected(...)).
ii)  A throw of type T violates a function exception specification, causing
     unexpected() to be called and the user's handler to be entered.
iii) The handler throws another exception of type T.

3) Type matching when throwing a NULL pointer to pointer to T (any type T)
could dereference down the "pointer" chain beginning at location 0 (=NULL),
hence possibly accessing any location in memory.