Any libunwind experts n da house?

[IgorStepanov via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 18:33:24 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 11:34:32 UTC, IgorStepanov 
> wrote:
>
>> C++ exception mechanism uses C++ type_info objects. We can 
>> inherit object.Throwable from std::exception (through 
>> extern(C++) interface), override the what() method, but there 
>> are no way to generate C++ type_info for D class now. If we 
>> want to do a compiler support of C++ exceptions, we should 
>> implement and support another one non-standartized feature: 
>> type_info. BTW it allows to do dynamic_cast over C++ classes 
>> in D, but I think, nobody approve this suggestion, because it 
>> can be hard).
>
> Objective-C can do it somehow. If they can do it I'm sure we 
> can as well.
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg

If someone from D commanders bless me, I can start to exploring 
and implementing std::type_info for D classes. If we made it, we 
will implement 50% of C++ exception handling.