-
Russ Cox authored
Structured Exception Handling (SEH) was the first way to handle exceptions (memory faults, divides by zero) on Windows. The S might as well stand for "stack-based": the implementation interprets stack addresses in a few different ways, and it gets subtly confused by Go's management of stacks. It's also something that requires active maintenance during cgo switches, and we've had bugs in that maintenance in the past. We have recently come to believe that SEH cannot work with Go's stack usage. See http://golang.org/issue/7325 for details. Vectored Exception Handling (VEH) is more like a Unix signal handler: you set it once for the whole process and forget about it. This CL drops all the SEH code and replaces it with VEH code. Many special cases and 7 #ifdefs disappear. VEH was introduced in Windows XP, so Go on windows/386 will now require Windows XP or later. The previous requirement was Windows 2000 or later. Windows 2000 immediately preceded Windows XP, so Windows 2000 is the only affected version. Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 2000 in 2010. See http://golang.org/s/win2000-golang-nuts for details. Fixes #7325. LGTM=alex.brainman, r R=golang-codereviews, alex.brainman, stephen.gutekanst, dave CC=golang-codereviews, iant, r https://golang.org/cl/74790043
3750904a