More LDC Exception Handling Stuff

[Christian Kamm]

Don wrote:

> Christian Kamm wrote:
>> dsimcha wrote:
>>> When people say that exception handling doesn't work on LDC in some
>>> circumstances, does this mean that if the code uses exceptions it won't
>>> work, that you can't catch exceptions or something else?
>> 
>> That really depends. It could mean that exception handling is buggy (LLVM
>> bug in x86-64) or that something is fundamentally amiss (Windows) and
>> unwinding the stack to the correct catch clause does not work. In the
>> latter case, we make 'throw' print out a message and terminate the
>> program instead.
>> 
>>> Would I be able to use LDC on
>>> platforms where exception handling isn't supported, with library code
>>> that throws exceptions, as long as I didn't care about catching these
>>> exceptions?
>> 
>> I'd expect so, though it hasn't been tried.
>> 
> Does that mean that it compiles, at least?

LDC, the runtime, tango-user, code using exception handling - all on x86-32
or x86-64 Linux: yes, they do compile. Did I misunderstand the question?