"bearophile" <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote in message news:hvtovg$2m0...@digitalmars.com... > Thank you Jerome and all the people that have answered me, I was ignorant > about GNU license. > >> if you call a DLL and give it a callback and your callback throws then >> the cleanup code in the DLL won't be run (and vice versa of course). >> SEH would allow this to work. > > If someone writes a compiler/language that allows programs to be ported > with no problems from Windows to other nonwindows systems, this may damage > Windows a little (but isn't Mono able to do this with C#2 programs?). > > But it's economically advantageous for Microsoft to make it easy for > people to create new compilers and languages for Windows that work well > with other Windows programs. So in my opinion having a good Clang++ on > Windows is good for the economic well-being of Windows. They can grant > LLVM a free licence to use Windows-style exceptions. >
Unfortunately, that's never gonna happen. They prefer to use their patents to extort companies that use OSS code: http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=1953&blogid=14 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10206988-56.html ------------------------------- Not sent from an iPhone.
