LDC Windows exception handling

Aarti_pl aarti at interia.pl
Tue Dec 16 04:32:10 PST 2008


Aarti_pl pisze:
> dsimcha pisze:
>> == Quote from Christian Kamm (kamm-incasoftware at removethis.de)'s article
>>>> 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.
>>
>> I think this solution is much better than nothing.  I assume it would 
>> at least
>> work ok on standalone-type projects.
>>
> 
> Yeah... Also my thoughts...
> 
> Additionally maybe there are 3rd party object files converters, and 
> "Windows people" work could be done using them as workaround?
> 
> BR
> Marcin Kuszczak
> (aarti_pl)

I found such a converter (GPL licenced):
http://agner.org/optimize/#objconv

Can anyone comment if such a workaround will solve initial problem? (at 
least temporary).

If the answer is yes, then can we expect adding exception handling for 
LDC on windows? :-)

BR
Marcin Kuszczak
(aarti_pl)



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