@nogc and exceptions

[Jakob Ovrum via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 12 September 2014 at 16:33:50 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky 
wrote:
> Agreed.
>
> I think that the total amount of live (not garbage) exceptions 
> on heap is small for any typical application. Thus just special 
> casing the hell out of exception allocation in the GC (and 
> compiler) is IMO perfectly satisfactory hack.

We can't use the GC as the whole point is to mark library code 
`@nogc`. It should work even if the user has ripped the GC out of 
druntime with a custom build.