Any libunwind experts n da house?

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 24 September 2014 21:11, deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 September 2014 at 19:28:50 UTC, Andrei
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>> However, for sure, the easiest thing that could be done *now* that
>>> only needs a slight EH library tweak is using catch-all handlers to
>>> recover from any language exception.
>>>
>>> try {
>>>   SomeCxxFuncThatMayThrow();
>>> }
>>> catch {
>>>   // Recover, but without knowing what happened.
>>> }
>>>
>>> But I'd imagine you'd actually want information to come with your
>>> caught exception, though. :)
>>
>>
>> Well even a catch like that would definitely be an improvement.
>>
>
> Considered it for SDC. it is not that simple as if it is a C++
> exception, you need to do the same cleanup of the exception that
> the C++ runtime would do, which is not that simple.

Hmm... I forgot about the C++ compiler emitting function calls for the
begin/end of catches.  Yeah, that would indeed need to be supported on
the compiler side!