LDC Windows exception handling

Bill Baxter wbaxter at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 13:45:30 PST 2008


On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Christian Kamm
<kamm-incasoftware at removethis.de> wrote:
>> Speaking of LDC, any chance that the exception handling on Win32 gets
>> fixed in the near future?
>
> No, unfortunately.
>
> It's a problem with LLVM only supporting Dwarf2 exception handling. I'm
> pretty sure it'd work if we used ELF for the object files and GCC for
> linking, but Windows people tell me this is hardly acceptable.
>
> We won't get 'real' exceptions working on Windows until someone adds SEH
> support to LLVM.
>
> Volunteers?
>
>

Hmm, so what does clang do then?  Does it also just fail on Windows?
Anyway, I signed up for the clang dev mailing list to ask this
question there too...

--bb



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