LDC Windows exception handling

[aarti_pl]

Christian Kamm pisze:
> Christian Kamm:
>>>>> 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.
> 
> dsimcha:
>>>> I think this solution is much better than nothing.  I assume it would
>>>> at least
>>>> work ok on standalone-type projects.
> 
> Aarti_pl:
>>> Yeah... Also my thoughts...
>>>
>>> Additionally maybe there are 3rd party object files converters, and
>>> "Windows people" work could be done using them as workaround?
> 
> 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).
> 
> I doubt it. This utility strips incompatible debug and exception handling
> information by default and I don't know what happens if you tell it not to.
> It's pretty likely the runtime won't find the tables in the foreign object
> format.
> 
> Also, you'd still need GCC's dwarf2 unwinding runtime.

Well, I am not very familiar with internals of compilers.

I just would like to put my hands on fully working LDC on windows :-)

Just one more thought: Agner Fog seems to live in Copenhagen. Maybe it 
would be good idea to contact with him? Especially for Thomas :-)

Anyway, thanks for your great work.

BR
Marcin Kuszczak
(aarti_pl)