"Igor Siemienowicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:77607@palm-dev-forum... > > "John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:77433@palm-dev-forum... > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:53:44PM +1100, Igor Siemienowicz wrote: > > > 1. I could be wrong about this, but I heard that the exception-handling > > > stuff adds about 7-10K - now, this doesn't seem like such a big deal to > me, > > > [... snip ... ] > > > > IIRC the exception tables are currently placed in the global data. In > > addition to the usual do-I-have-globals question, this means that even > > on Palm OS devices with lots of memory any bloat is significant, because > > global data is limited to 32K by a restrictive m68k addressing mode. > > Ah, I guess that's why people seem to avoid them, even in CW - that space is > precious.
That was one of the reasons we added expanded mode in CW Palm V8 -- it moves a lot of that exception table data into a separate 64K segment away from the global data, making doing C++ programs using exceptions more practical. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
