[PATCH] Cygwin: main exception handler (64-bit): continue GCC exceptions

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 17 16:44, Ken Brown via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> This is necessary in order to be consistent with the following comment
> in the definition of _Unwind_RaiseException() in the GCC source file
> libgcc/unwind-seh.c:
> 
>      The exception handler installed in crt0 will continue any GCC
>      exception that reaches there (and isn't marked non-continuable).
> 
> Previously we failed to do this and, as a consequence, the C++ runtime
> didn't call std::terminate after an unhandled exception.
> 
> This fixes the problem reported here:
> 
>   https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin/2020-August/245897.html
> ---
>  winsup/cygwin/exceptions.cc | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)

Thanks a lot!  Please push.


Corinna