Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

[Elie Morisse via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 01:19:19 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Great news! What's the story on exceptions? Does Calypso allow 
> D code to catch exceptions thrown from C++ code? -- Andrei

Small update: the LDC 0.16.1 merge was done and it's now possible 
to catch about any C++ exception with catch (C++) (..) {..} 
statements.

   
https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso/blob/master/tests/calypso/eh/std_exception.d

Output:

     Throwing an ooops exception
     Catching the ooops, e.what() == Ooops!

     Throwing another ooops exception
     Catching the std::exception, e.what() == Ooops!

     Now throwing a float
     Catching the float, f == 20.160000!


What's left to implement for full C++ EH support:
  - catching class/struct by value (it's already possible to catch 
thrown class values by reference though)
  - thrown object lifetime
  - rethrowing