[llvm-dev] How to call an (x86) cleanup/catchpad funclet

Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Apr 5 09:18:42 PDT 2016


On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Carlo Kok <ck at remobjects.com> wrote:
>
> Also, unless you absolutely need to be compatible with MSVC exceptions,
>> don't use funclets for your new personality. Use landingpads. They are
>> better and will get you better code.
>>
>
> ah ke, but landingpads won't let me catch SEH exceptions will they?


You can build a personality function similar to __gxx_personality_seh0 that
calls filter functions, and then resumes control at the appropriate
landingpad. You'd need to build out something similar to _Unwind_Resume or
use mingw's from libgcc to implement successive unwinding for finally.
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