On 21 Nov 2001, Oleg Polyanski wrote:

:  Oops, forgot to add that until the recent binutils (2.11.x series) had been
:  integrated into -current the exception handling didn't work because the
:  compiler was not using the `-fsjlj-exceptions' option by default, it had to
:  be specified manually.

Actually, this is something that got migrated to the new gcc in
gnu/dist/toolchain.

: If you have the plain installation of 1.5.x/i386
:  series somewhere around and few spare minutes, could you please check it

1.5, 1.5.1, and 1.5.2 all use sjlj exceptions on [ELF] i386.

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