[cfe-commits] [libcxxabi] r147148 - in /libcxxabi/trunk: CREDITS.TXT src/cxa_exception.cpp

[John McCall]

On Dec 22, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Dave Zarzycki wrote:
> Howard,
> 
> Does the ABI require that it be prefixed with __gxx_*?

Not at the Itanium ABI level, but at the level of of drop-in compatibility
with libstdc++, yes.  GCC and Clang emit code with references to
exactly this symbol.  The "gxx" is best interpreted as "personality that
consumes LSDA information in the v0 format output by G++".

John.