[M3devel] how to use gcc exception/unwind support?

[Jay K]

I think _Unwind_RaiseException is the way to go.
It is the Linux runtime, the Darwin runtime, the *BSD runtime.
There still remains the setjmp option for portability.
libunwind is sort of an option, carrying it around, but I think probably not preferred.

 - Jay

From: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:27:03 -0500
To: jay.krell at cornell.edu
CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
Subject: Re: [M3devel] how to use gcc exception/unwind support?



I am just leery of getting too much more entangled with the gcc runtime.It makes our compiler even more non-portable.


On Jan 6, 2011, at 2:21 AM, Jay K wrote: >> Yes, indeed.  We don't need all the overhead of the C++ exception handling mechanism.


 > It is so much? Well, it maybe is more to understand.


There is also a very good chance that raising a Modula-3 exception
will run C++ destructors for intervening threads, which is desirable,
if we do this "right".
Likewise, C++ exceptions running Modula-3 unlock/finally blocks.
Interop can be good.


 - Jay

 		 	   		  
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