[cfe-dev] Status of SEH?

[Jb Feldman]

Thanks for this link. I lost it in the tangent that this thread took, but
this presentation is great.


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Dennis Luehring <dl.soluz at gmx.net> wrote:

> >Does anyone feel strongly that we should follow
> >the Visual C++ SEH approach
>
> not by default but as an option if its needed to get closer to
> full interop with vstudio compiled libs
>
> see Reid Kleckner talk "Bringing clang and LLVM to Visual C++ users" (
> http://llvm.org/devmtg/2013-11/#talk11)
>
> Am 30.01.2014 20:37, schrieb Jb Feldman:
>
>  So, as I'm looking at this, thinking about trying to get it implemented by
>> June, I came up with a question for the list. Does anyone feel strongly
>> that we should follow the Visual C++ SEH approach or just make sure it is
>> functional. Visual C++ uses a crazy fancy extended structure to make sure
>> that everything goes back to the same function, but the operating system
>> doesn't mandate that we take that approach.
>>
>> Opinions?
>>
>> JB
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Jb Feldman <jb.feldman at kyrus-tech.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Yes, it looks like the patent will expire in June, so that's exciting.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:57 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 2014-01-30 04:41, Jb Feldman wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> I was wondering what the current state of SEH and planned SEH support
>> >>> is. The things I've found in mailing list/forum history indicate that
>> >>> parsing and AST are now supported, but the back end is not in place.
>> >>>
>> >>> Is the problem a lack of implementation, or the referenced patent
>> >>> issues? Are there any paths forward identified? I know that C++
>> >>> exceptions work in user mode, but that won't cut it in Windows
>> drivers.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> As far as I understand, from reading this mailing list, is that nothing
>> >> will happen as long as there is a patent on the technology. But if I
>> recall
>> >> correctly that patent should end sometime this year.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> /Jacob Carlborg
>> >>
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