[C++-sig] GCC version compatibility

[Niall Douglas]

On 6 Jul 2005 at 22:22, David Abrahams wrote:

> I'm wondering if there has been a well-known recent change either in
> Python or GCC that would account for these new reports.  Any relevant
> information would be appreciated.

If you use -fvisibility=hidden and don't mark thrown types as always 
visible, you get fatal application exits should that exception cross 
a shared object boundary. I'm pretty sure that's not a problem for 
BPL though.

Cheers,
Niall