C++/D interface: exceptions

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/09/14 02:44, David Nadlinger wrote:

> Just a quick comment on this: 2) is very simple to implement for all the
> compilers that actually use libunwind Dwarf 2 EH on Linux, i.e. GDC and
> LDC (I think deadalnix already looked into this for SDC).

It would be nice if DMD could do the same for D exceptions.

> 3) is also doable, but of course significantly more annoying because you
> need to deal with the internals of the exception ABI of your C++
> compiler. Accessing the exception object is relatively trivial, ABI and
> mangling support is slowly coming anyway, but OTOH handling the
> exception lifetime correctly could become somewhat of a headache.

Is handling the exception any more of a headache compared to only using C++?

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/Jacob Carlborg