September 14, 2012
Maybe just some configure switch, which enabled/disabled SEH when compiling LDC


On Friday, 14 September 2012 at 08:02:51 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 08:25 +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2012-09-13 16:40, Don Clugston wrote:
>> 
>> > That sounds paranoid to me. I believe the patent is essentially a
>> > workaround for the absence of thread-local variables on 16-bit Windows.
>> 
>> BTW, regardless if it's under a patent or not we can't force them to implement SEH in LLVM.
>> 
>> The description of the patent just says that it's about a system for compilers that allow support runtime exception handling.
>
> Presumably the patent (if it exists and is enforceable) only applies in
> the USA. So for the rest of the world there is absolutely no need to
> worry about it. Only people in the USA have to worry. Which means one
> version for in the USA and one version for everywhere else?


September 14, 2012
On 9/14/12 1:57 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-09-14 at 00:52 +0200, Rob T wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 at 14:42:25 UTC, Russel Winder
>> wrote:
>>> It appears that the LDC website is in need of an overhaul.
>>
>> No kidding. I thought the project was completely dead. Updating a
>> web page is usually very easy, strange ...
>
> Rather usefully, LDC seems far from dead, it builds and works very well.
> It just seems that LDC-related effort only relates to the Git codebase
> repository! ;-)

Could please the responsibles update the project homepage? After that I'll be glad to link to it from dlang.org/download.html.

Thanks,

Andrei

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