Catching C++ std::exception in D

[Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d]

Am Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:59:14 -0800
schrieb Dan Olson <gorox at comcast.net>:

> Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> writes:
> > To expand on this: I think we'd prefer one __d_personality_v0 which
> > is implemented in upstream druntime and identical for all
> > compilers.  
> 
> Speacking of upstream support.  GDC support SjLj exceptions.  In
> 2.067, it became obvious that Fiber needed separate SjLj context
> stacks which are normally thread specific.  I have a change in my iOS
> LDC fork which I suppose could go to upstream thread.d file so GDC
> can pick it up to.
> 
> https://github.com/smolt/druntime/commit/5d32e9e68cc6bd8b13cacfdb18a4d91374bf6b3e
> 
> See, I even included GNU_SjLj_Exceptions :-)
> 
> Sound like a good idea?  It is getting queued up soon as a PR to LDC
> once we get an iOS version officially in the compiler frontend.

Nice work. We certainly want that in GDC or even better in upstream.
I guess we don't have a unittest yet which can detect this problem. Is
it possible to add a unittest for this?