Calypso progress report (+ updated MingW64 build)

[Elie Morisse via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 16 November 2015 at 19:35:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> That's great progress. Do you have documentation for how things 
> work? For example, what's the lifetime of the pointer people 
> will get from std::exception::what().
>
> IMHO: don't worry about catching exceptions by value; it's 
> almost always either incorrect, uninteresting, or both. The 
> prize is catching (references to) classes rooted in 
> std::exception. Nice-to-have is catching (references to) 
> classes rooted in other C++ classes.
>
> A blog post would be fantastic.
>
>
> Andrei

Finally there: 
https://syniurgeblog.wordpress.com/2015/11/20/catching-cpp-exceptions-in-d/

Although a little late and probably less user-oriented than you 
wanted?

> For example, what's the lifetime of the pointer people will get 
> from std::exception::what().

The exception object gets destroyed on exiting the catch (C++) 
block if the exception isn't rethrown.