[LLVMdev] Advice on MachineMoves and SEH

Sohail Somani sohail at taggedtype.net
Fri Jun 10 13:59:34 PDT 2011


On 11-06-09 2:30 PM, Bill Wendling wrote:
> Just a comment on the main idea of SEH being in LLVM. It should be noted that Borland owns a patent on SEH:
> 
> 	http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/WindowsGCCImprovements
> 
> I think we should proceed with caution in this case.
> 

They have a patent on frame-based exception handling. Windows 64-bit SEH
is table-based like DWARF so it is not an issue, as far as I understand.




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