[LLVMdev] Getting exceptions to work?

Nicolas Geoffray nicolas.geoffray at lip6.fr
Tue May 19 09:45:17 PDT 2009


Talin wrote:
> I see. OK, I will try that.
>
> I was hoping to be able to test the exception type in the personality 
> function - the language I am working on has its own type system, 
> unrelated to C or C++, so I want to minimize reliance on C++ exception 
> handling libraries. In this case, I guess I can do the exception type 
> checking in the landing pad instead of the personality function.
>   

Yes, that's what VMKit used to do, until it realized dwarf exceptions 
should never be used for something like Java :)

Nicolas

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