[LLVMdev] LLVM: to catch 'unwind' instruction from calling C++ code

[Duncan Sands]

Hi Semion, the unwind instruction has been removed from LLVM.  Also, the JIT
and code generators never supported it: it never unwound the stack, it just
resulted in a nasty crash.

Ciao, Duncan.

> I have a little problem using LLVM and will be happy to get a solution. I need
> to handle in C++ code an uncaught unwind instruction while calling JIT (now I
> get segfault). I mean something like nonexistent ExecutionEngine::invokeFunction
> instead of callFunction. Setting llvm::JITExceptionHandling to true
> and enclosing the JIT-call within try/catch block does not help here, because
> there is no C++ style exception thrown, but a simple unwind instruction. Thanks
> in advance.
>
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