Request for testers: GDC-5.1 Release Candidate branched

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 19 April 2015 at 18:36, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> wrote:
> On 19 April 2015 at 13:52, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> wrote:
>> On 19 April 2015 at 13:50, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> wrote:
>>> On 19 April 2015 at 09:13, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Last feature I am working on getting in is runtime exception chaining
>>>> support.  If anyone has any grand ideas, they'd be more than welcome.
>>>>
>>>
>>> First attempt:
>>> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/compare/master...ibuclaw:eh_chaining
>>>
>>> Can someone have a review?  In particular, I'd like to know when and
>>> when not to chain Exception and/or Error objects together.
>>>
>>
>> For instance, if a new exception is thrown inside a catch handler,
>> what then?  If a caught exception is thrown, what then?
>>
>
> Ah ha!  After some pretty intense studying, looks like libunwind gives
> enough information for us to distinguosh which thrown objects should
> be stringed together.
>
> All what I think is needed is for gdc to emit some __begin_catch call
> which builds and returns the constructed Exception object to be passed
> to user-land.
>

https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/98