[LLVMdev] Catching exceptions passed through a JIT ExecutionEngine

[Garrison Venn]

Although I did not archive the wiki entry, the code is at llvm/examples/ExceptionDemo/ExceptionDemo.cpp and is built (for OS X and Linux) by building llvm with the environment var BUILD_EXAMPLES set to 1.

Garrison

On Jul 21, 2011, at 17:56, Geoff Reedy wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 07:25:16PM -0400, Peter Zion said
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I'm trying to catch an exception that is "passed through" an LLVM ExecutionEngine but I am unable to do so.  Specifically, in C++ code, inside a try/catch block, I call a JITted function, which in turn calls back into my code.  Everything works fine unless an exception is thrown; I would except the outermost try/catch(...) block to catch the exception thrown in my innermost C++ code, but instead I get the abort "terminate called after throwing an instance of 'MyException'".  I am compiling the system with g++ (on Linux and OSX); I haven't tried MSVC++.
>> 
>> Is there something that I need to do to get this behaviour to work?  I admit that I have only a fairly basic understanding of how exception handling is implemented in C++ but from what I've read it seems like the exception should unwind through what is, for all intents and purposes, a simple call stack...
> 
> There was an example program detailing how to do exactly this on the
> wiki. Was the wiki content archived before it was taken down?
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