[ros-dev] Re: [Freedce-devel] pthread_clear_exit_np()

[KJKHyperion]

Steven Edwards wrote:
> SEH is also patented which means its dead in the water for most free 
> software projects.
oh dear. First: HAHAHAHAHA LOOK AT THE MAMA'S BOY, CRY BOY CRY. Then: 
it's not "patented" per se. Only the stack-based implementation on x86 
(NO WE CANNOT USE ANOTHER IMPLEMENTATION. Really beary totally 
absolutely positively sure), and even then only if compiler-integrated. 
Since GCC doesn't use stack-based exception handling *anywhere*, not 
even on x86, that'd be a total non-issue. On operating systems as yet 
unblessed by SEH it'd be even better as a starting point: a single 
implementation shared by all architectures upfront. And lack of compiler 
support is only really a problem on non-x86, because on x86 you can use 
PSEH, which isn't covered by the patent