LDC

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:12:29 +0200
Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2012-09-05 14:32, Piotr Szturmaj wrote:
> > angel wrote:
> >> Check out LDC web-page ...
> >> In github we see they're up to date - merging 2.060
> >
> > What's the status of SEH on Windows?
> 
> It's not looking good, at least not for 32bit. Borland has some kind
> of patent on something related to SEH. Due to this, the LLVM/Clang 
> developers won't implement SEH for Windows.
> 

Meh, it's not physically *possible* to write software that doesn't
infringe on some software patent or another. If they're worried about
infringing on some patent, they may as well just stop writing code
altogether.

> BTW, how does DMD handle this. Does it use its own, non-compatible 
> implementation, or is the technology licensed?
> 
> http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=21MgAAAAEBAJ&dq=5,628,016
> 

I've wondered the same thing.