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Winelib Hobbled by Exception-Handling Patent

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cheese-with-your-wine dept.

davidwr writes "UKBuilder.com reports that Borland's structured exception handling (SEH) patent affects Winelib. Winelib allows you to compile Windows-targeted code to run natively on Linux. Because of the patent, gcc does not include support for SEH, which is widely used in the MS-Windows world. There are workarounds, but you won't like them."

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  1. Borland's still around? by CyberSnyder · · Score: 4, Funny

    Guess I've been doing too much Unix...

  2. Ugly workaround? by evil-osm · · Score: 5, Funny

    There are workarounds, but you won't like them.

    Use Windows? (ducks)

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    1. Re:Ugly workaround? by Dan512 · · Score: 5, Funny

      While listening to the wineconf presentations I heard one guy talking about a scheme using goto statements.

  3. Huh? by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 4, Funny

    Man, I wish I knew what that meant. It sounds pretty frickin' sweet.

    --grendel drago

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