Re: Building Octave on cygwin with gcc3.3.3

[Paul Thomas]

John,

I missed this in a mess of other messages.

> It is possible that having virtual functions forces some exception
> handling code to be generated.  I don't know the details.  It seems
> that you could easily check this by looking at the generated code.
Yes, I agree.  It's on the list of things to do.

> In any case, I don't think it is reasonable to think of Octave's use
> of virtual functions as the bug that needs to be fixed.  It seems to
> me that the solution to all of this mess is to have a version of GCC
> that uses a better method of exception handling
agreed

> Another problem that has not received much attention (as far as I can
> tell) is why libstdc++ is not built as a shared library on Windows
> systems.  Does anyone have any clues about why that is not done by
> default?  Having a shared libstdc++ would make .oct files much
> smaller.
I have no idea.  This reinforces my intention to build gcc-3.4 
yself.  --enable-shared is a default setting for gcc builds.  I'll download 
gcc right away.

Paul T




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