On 21 Nov 2001, Oleg Polyanski wrote:

: > 2.  The school uses v. 1.4.2 on PII's,

:  Before you start using C++ compiler that is shipped with 1.4.x series, you
:  have not forget that
:
:   1) exception handling does not work out of the box, you must specify the
:      compiler option `-fsjlj-exceptions' when compiling your code with
:      exceptions. You may put this option into `specs' file which is part of
:      g++ infrastructure.

Huh?

Exceptions worked fine for me in 1.4.x with i386 (to which the original
author referred).  a.out machines such as this use sjlj exceptions by
default.

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