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Subject: Re: llvm/clang 3.0-1 silently ignores C++ exception handling
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:36:05 -0600
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On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 20:55 +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 19:41 +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
> >> Clang++ 3.0-1 does not produce any exception handling code. Unwind
> >> tables and code within catch(.) {...} blocks are not generated. Throw
> >> always abort()s program.
> >>
> >> Is this as excepted?
> > As best as I can tell, this is an upstream limitation.
> 
> Yes, http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11285

Much as I suspected, although you'd think such an unfortunate limitation
would be documented somewhere.

I honestly don't have the time or expertise to implement this right now,
so I'm afraid this is an upstream case of PTC.


Yaakov



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