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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."

2 of 409 comments (clear)

  1. GCC list discussion by Bananenrepublik · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course this was discussed on the gcc list, the thread starts here.

    Links to an implementation of this can be found in this mail, the legality of this implementation is discussed in the followup.

    The inevitable prior-art discussion begins here.

  2. What patent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the patent in question.