Any libunwind experts n da house?

[IgorStepanov via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 27 September 2014 at 20:11:34 UTC, Iain Buclaw via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 27 September 2014 10:53, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-09-23 19:37, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>> We need a libunwind expert to figure out a good approach for 
>>> handling
>>> exceptions thrown by C++ code into D.
>>
>>
>> BTW, are you only interested in handling C++ exception, or are 
>> you
>> interested in handling D exceptions in C++ as well?
>>
>> One ugly hack is to register a terminate handler. Then in the 
>> handler
>> extract the necessary information from the exception, create a 
>> D exception
>> with this information and throw it as a regular D exception.
>>
>> Throwing a D exception that should be catchable in C++ is a 
>> bit more tricky.
>> It's possible to wrap the a call to a D function in a 
>> try-catch block.
>> Convert the D exception to a C++ exception, then throw it 
>> using a function
>> part of the C++ exception runtime. The problem here is that 
>> C++ won't be
>> able to catch this exception because there's no personality 
>> function (or
>> similar) setup by the D compiler.
>>
>> Ideally D should just use the same exception mechanism as C++. 
>> I don't think
>> a language change is necessary for this. Changes in the 
>> compiler, yes, but
>> hopefully not in the language.
>>
>
> Well, ObjC++ shares the same EH personality routines as C++, 
> which
> probably accounts for the compatibility. :)
>
> Iain.

Is this way acceptable for D, or not. Why?