Is the world coming to an end?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"spir" <denis.spir at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 04/04/2011 07:26 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> As far as LDC2, LLVM's uselessness on windows is a bit of a showstopper 
>> for
>> many people. And the LLVM project doesn't appear to be interested in 
>> doing
>> much about it. (Note I didn't say they *aren't* interested in getting it
>> working. That's not something I could even pretend to know. I'm just 
>> saying
>> that, at the very least, it *looks* like they don't care. And, for better 
>> or
>> worse, perception does count for a lot.)
>
> Yop, too bad. Else, LLVM could be the one target of choice for many PL's 
> "reference" implementation. I'd like to know rationales.
>

AIUI, the standard explanation is that exception support on Windows requires 
SEH which is covered by a patent owned by Borland/Microsoft. But I have a 
hard time buying that explanation because non-MS compilers like GCC and DMC 
support exceptions on windows just fine - so why not LLVM, too?

I hate to make accusations of impropriety without proper evidence, but Apple 
is known to be a major backer of LLVM. Obviously that doesn't prove anything 
at all, but it wouldn't surprise me if that at least had *something* to do 
with it (although specifically *what*, I could only speculate).