Re: mingw and -fomit-frame-pointer

[David Olofson <david@...>]

On Friday 04 February 2005 14.50, Adam D. Moss wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I thought I'd warn fellow Lua users about something which has
> caused me quite a lot of debugging anguish: it's not safe to compile
> Lua with -fomit-frame-pointer if you're compiling with mingw.  It
> can cause longjmp() to crash horribly.  (This probably depends on
> the mingw version but from googling around it looks like various
> people have experienced this problem; YMMV.)
> 
> So if you're wondering why, for example, your pcall() errors
> always terminate the program badly... this could be it.

Do you have a link to some explanation of what happens, more 
specifically? Does it just plain break longjmp(), or just cause it to 
malfunction in certain cases?

/me wondering if this might affect the EEL compiler as well...


//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate

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