C++/D interface: exceptions

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 12 Sep 2014 01:35, "Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d" <
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> We are racking our brains to figure out what to do about exceptions
thrown from C++ functions into D code that calls them.
>
> A few levels of Nirvana would go like this:
>
> 0. Undefined behavior - the only advantage to this is we're there already
with no work :o).
>
> 1. C++ exceptions may be caught only by C++ code on the call stack; D
code does the stack unwinding appropriately (dtors, scope statements) but
can't catch stuff.
>

Libunwind + handling foreign exceptions you can do this.  And is beneficial
in that it works with any other languages that use libunwind, such as gccgo.

Iain
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