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Tony Finch wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Mike Pall wrote:
> > The page is a bit unorganized and rather ancient, but the given
> > exception handling specification is still correct:
> >   http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/
> 
> That appears to be specific to the Itanium. Where is the spec that says
> this API can be expected on other architectures?

That's just because nobody bothered to update the page. All
architectures use it nowadays (ARM uses a variant). E.g. the
System V ABI for AMD64 explicitly references the IA-64 ABI in
section 6.2 (Unwind Library Interface):

  http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf

--Mike