Any libunwind experts n da house?

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/27/14, 12:53 PM, IgorStepanov wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 18:33:24 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 11:34:32 UTC, IgorStepanov wrote:
>>
>>> C++ exception mechanism uses C++ type_info objects. We can inherit
>>> object.Throwable from std::exception (through extern(C++) interface),
>>> override the what() method, but there are no way to generate C++
>>> type_info for D class now. If we want to do a compiler support of C++
>>> exceptions, we should implement and support another one
>>> non-standartized feature: type_info. BTW it allows to do dynamic_cast
>>> over C++ classes in D, but I think, nobody approve this suggestion,
>>> because it can be hard).
>>
>> Objective-C can do it somehow. If they can do it I'm sure we can as well.
>>
>> --
>> /Jacob Carlborg
>
> If someone from D commanders bless me, I can start to exploring and
> implementing std::type_info for D classes. If we made it, we will
> implement 50% of C++ exception handling.

Would that be for throwing exceptions from D into C++? I think we can 
postpone that for now. -- Andrei