[cfe-dev] Status of SEH?

[Dennis Luehring]

maybe you should directly contact Reid Kleckner - google seems to invest 
much in this area

anyone got an idea about the current PDB support status in LLVM/clang?

Am 31.01.2014 17:45, schrieb 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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