kernel/eka/compsupp/aehabi/Readme
author Mike Kinghan <mikek@symbian.org>
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:39:21 +0000
branchGCC_SURGE
changeset 303 9b85206a602c
parent 0 a41df078684a
permissions -rw-r--r--
We need a way to pass flags to rombuilds in Raptor via extension flm interfaces, so that the CPP pass of the rom input files can be informed what toolchain we are building with and conditionally include or exclude files depending on whether the toolchain could build them.

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.