[cfe-dev] Initial exception support for the GNU runtime

[Chris Lattner]

On May 8, 2009, at 10:09 AM, David Chisnall wrote:

> On 7 May 2009, at 22:52, David Chisnall wrote:
>
>> - Only id @catch statements are currently working.  This is enough  
>> for NS_DURING and friends, but I need to spend more time reading  
>> the output from gcc -S to work out how it finds the class pointer  
>> to make arbitrary class type catch statements work.
>
> Turns out it's easy - the GNU runtime uses class names, not class  
> pointers.  I was missing an objc_get_class() reading the code.
>
> Attached diff fixes this, should fix it on 64-bit platforms  
> (untested - I don't have a machine to try it on), and removes two  
> FIXMEs that I forgot to remove before sending the last patch.

Thanks David, applied:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/cfe-commits/Week-of-Mon-20090504/017007.html

-Chris