Any libunwind experts n da house?

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 24 September 2014 12:27, IgorStepanov via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 17:37:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> We need a libunwind expert to figure out a good approach for handling
>> exceptions thrown by C++ code into D.
>>
>> Is anyone fluent with libunwind?
>>
>>
>> Andrei
>
>
> Is there plans to catching C++ exceptions in D?

I'd say no to such an idea.

> What kind of C++ exceptions planned to catch in D?

None

> For example C++ can throw primitive types exceptions, for example int.
> Of cource, them can be wrapped into special D CPPException : Throwable,
> class, which contains string representation of C++ exception.
> What about C++ polymorthic exceptions? AFAIK, C++ exception are throwing
> by-value, and catching by ref (to allow polimorthic catch). Where C++ calls
> destructor for exception? In catch block? In D GC handles an exception
> lifetime.
> Is there any ideas about it?
> P.S. I tell about user-side of catching C++ exceptions, not about
> implementation.

Let C++ land catch the exception and deal with it.

Iain.