Dwarf Exception Handling now on FreeBSD!

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 31 19:23:18 PST 2016


On 1/31/2016 7:04 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 01/02/16 4:01 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/31/2016 6:32 PM, Charles wrote:
>>> Are there any future plans for Win64 since it won't ever support dwarf
>>> exceptions from how I understand it? Or does it, and I'm strongly
>>> mistaken?
>>
>> VC++'s Win64 exception handling scheme is not at all the Win32 scheme
>> and definitely not Dwarf EH. Supporting it would be an additional level
>> of effort on par with supporting Dwarf EH, presuming documentation on it
>> can be found. (I haven't looked for it.)
>>
>> If someone wants to search for a spec for it, that would be a good start.
>
> I believe the last link will be most helpful. But first will give you a good
> understanding and where to go(its for the linker).
>
> If anybody wishes to look more into it.
>
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1deeycx5.aspx
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/swezty51.aspx
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1eyas8tf.aspx

They have bits and pieces of the info, but nothing about what is actually 
generated to, say, catch an exception.


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