[ros-general] SEH

[Richard Campbell]

FYI:  I was planning on starting such a project (to validate args) but i 
discovered my cvs account no longer exists...can someone please readd me?

Vizzini wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 01:29, Richard Campbell wrote:
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>>Hey guys,
>>
>>As you know, a while ago Microsoft made it's compiler toolkit freely 
>>available for download.  I was thinking earlier today, of improving the 
>>stability of ReactOS, when i happened to remember that microsoft's 
>>compiler supports SEH.  My question is, why don't we add support for the 
>>Microsoft compiler?  Nothing in the EULA prevents it as far as i can 
>>see, and we could still maintain full support for MingW (minus the SEH 
>>of course).
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>Lack of SEH isn't really a stumbling block at the moment - proper arg
>validation inside syscalls is more important at this stage.  That said,
>as long as gcc remains the primary compiler for the OS, and as long as
>any patches to get it building under msvc are small and unobtrusive, I
>don't see too much of a problem with adding other compilers to support.
>
>WRT the EULA, I think that's basically right - MS would have a hard time
>dictating what kinds of code the compiler can compile.  You [probably]
>couldn't use their runtime libraries, but that doesn't matter since we
>have our own.
>
>There are more important things to do, so I wouldn't recommend actually
>doing this.  But, if msvc support is what turns you on, go for it...
>
> -Vizzini
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