C++ exception handling on PPC with gcc 6.4.0 doesn't work

[Dave Horsfall]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2024, Andreas Falkenhahn wrote:

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> So the good news is that I've found a workaround. Turning the optimizer 
> off will make exceptions work again but the bad news is that of course 
> it looks like there is some major issue in the optimizer because 
> enabling it seems to break exceptions...

I've overcome all sorts of obscure problems by simply turning off the 
optimiser; face it: do you really want some unknown third party mucking 
around with your carefully-crafted algorithm?

-- Dave