[LLVMdev] C++ Exception Handling Problem

[Nyx]

Duncan Sands wrote:
> 
> Hi Nyx,
> 
>> I'm in the process of creating a JIT and I've run into a problem with
>> exception handling. The situation I'm in is that my program will JIT
>> functions, which will call native C++ functions (part of the run-time
>> support). These native functions can throw exceptions. However, I don't
>> actually want to handle these exceptions in the JITted functions. There
>> are
>> already try/catch blocks in place in the C++ function that calls the
>> JITted
>> functions. 
>> 
>> The problem I run into is that when exceptions are thrown, they aren't
>> caught anywhere. My program crashes with an error message: "terminate
>> called
>> after throwing an instance of 'RunError'". Where RunError is the
>> exception
>> type. Hence, the exceptions aren't getting caught where they should be.
> 
> does this happen in the non-jit context.  For example, suppose rather than
> JITing your bitcode you compile it down to object code, and arrange for it
> to be called from C++ and call C++.  Do exceptions then propagate and get
> caught correctly?
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> Duncan.
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By that I assume you mean compiling into a .o object file? I presume that
would work, but I can't really do that right now because the code I produce
contains pointers to dynamically allocated structures. What I'm doing right
now is getting a function pointer from the execution engine and calling the
JITted functions directly.
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