Re: [AD] Exception Support for Allegro

[Dustin Dettmer <dustin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Serge Semashko wrote:
> First, sorry, I did not quite understand the
> original post right at
> first. I thought that's another 'let's rewrite
> allegro in C++' guy :)
> So I take my words back, adding a compiler switch
> would not harm for
> sure.
> 
> But as original poster mentioned dlls, beware of ABI
> problems anyway.
> For example, using mingw built allegro dll with the
> program compiled
> using mingw should be ok. On the other hand when you
> compile the program
> using mingw, but use msvc compiled allegro dll, you
> get into the trouble
> again and compilation switches will not help you (as
> different compilers
> may use different and uncompatible stack unwinding).
> Allegro dll has C
> interface and it is better to use it as C, throwing
> exception from a
> callback will not be very safe, otherwise you will
> be strictly required
> to use the same compiler for both the dynamic
> library and the program.

I was under the impression that Allegro didn't compile
under MSVC and you needed mingw to make the dll for
you.

Some issue about self-changing asm code I thought.

What are all the compilers that Allegro does support?