Dwarf Exception Handling now on FreeBSD!

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 20:18:52 UTC, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On 2/3/16 11:28 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Sunday, 31 January 2016 at 06:34:26 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> It's always nice when that happens, especially when there's 
>> not much FreeBSD-specific work going on,
>> and the autotesters have generally been on older versions of 
>> FreeBSD such that issues on the newer
>> versions don't always get noticed (e.g. for a while there, the 
>> shared library stuff passed the tests
>> on FreeBSD 8 but not later; fortunately Martin got that fixed 
>> though).
>>
>> - Jonathan M Davis
>
> I haven't put much time into investigation, but the last time I 
> tried it, neither 9 nor 10 passed the test suite.  If someone 
> puts in the effort to get either or both of those working, I'd 
> be happy to upgrade some of the freebsd testers to newer 
> versions.  There's currently 4 freebsd machines, so plenty of 
> room to have a mix of versions.  Not enough to test every 
> combination of version and bitness, but enough to allow 
> randomness to expose issues.

One option to consider is installing FreeBSD 10 and then testing 
8 and 9 in jails, which are the precursor to Linux containers.  I 
used this approach years ago, when compiling Chromium for several 
FreeBSD versions.