Any libunwind experts n da house?

[Jason King via Digitalmars-d]

I believe pretty much anything *ix on 64-bit(at least) x86 (32-bit gets a
bit murkier due to historical issues) is using the same exception handling
ABI (which itself was based off the Itanic ABI):

http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf



On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> On 9/23/2014 11:03 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 17:37:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> We need a libunwind expert to figure out a good approach for handling
>>> exceptions thrown by C++ code into D.
>>>
>>> Is anyone fluent with libunwind?
>>>
>>
>> More or less.
>>
>> What exactly are your goals? I thought the options we have are fairly
>> clear, as
>> discussed a few days ago. At least, Amaury and I seemed to agree (both of
>> us
>> worked on EH recently). The main question to decide is whether you want
>> to go
>> down the catch-C++-exceptions-in-D rabbit hole.
>>
>
> One goal is to have dmd use the g++ exception handling mechanism. But
> googling how that works, I find dead links, specs that are 15 years old
> accompanied by vague comments about it being "extended" and "look at the
> g++ source code", etc.
>
> Are there any actual docs about how it works for x86? Or is it the usual
> "take apart the output of g++ and figure it out" that I usually wind up
> doing :-( ?
>
>
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