Catching C++ std::exception in D

[Dan Olson via Digitalmars-d]

Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> writes:

> Am Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:59:14 -0800
> schrieb Dan Olson <gorox at comcast.net>:
>
>> Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> writes:
>> > To expand on this: I think we'd prefer one __d_personality_v0 which
>> > is implemented in upstream druntime and identical for all
>> > compilers.  
>> 
>> Speacking of upstream support.  GDC support SjLj exceptions.  In
>> 2.067, it became obvious that Fiber needed separate SjLj context
>> stacks which are normally thread specific.  I have a change in my iOS
>> LDC fork which I suppose could go to upstream thread.d file so GDC
>> can pick it up to.
>> 
>> https://github.com/smolt/druntime/commit/5d32e9e68cc6bd8b13cacfdb18a4d91374bf6b3e
>> 
>> See, I even included GNU_SjLj_Exceptions :-)
>> 
>> Sound like a good idea?  It is getting queued up soon as a PR to LDC
>> once we get an iOS version officially in the compiler frontend.
>
> Nice work. We certainly want that in GDC or even better in upstream.
> I guess we don't have a unittest yet which can detect this problem. Is
> it possible to add a unittest for this?

I had 2.067 unittest failures without this change, I don't recall which.
I know it made me laugh becase exceptions were being thrown from Fiber A
but being caught by Fiber B.  I can easily find out what fails by
rerunning without the change. I'll report back later.