I believe pretty much anything *ix on 64-bit(at least) x86 (32-bit gets a bit murkier due to historical issues) is using the same exception handling ABI (which itself was based off the Itanic ABI):
http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/abi.pdf On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 9/23/2014 11:03 AM, David Nadlinger wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 23 September 2014 at 17:37:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> >>> We need a libunwind expert to figure out a good approach for handling >>> exceptions thrown by C++ code into D. >>> >>> Is anyone fluent with libunwind? >>> >> >> More or less. >> >> What exactly are your goals? I thought the options we have are fairly >> clear, as >> discussed a few days ago. At least, Amaury and I seemed to agree (both of >> us >> worked on EH recently). The main question to decide is whether you want >> to go >> down the catch-C++-exceptions-in-D rabbit hole. >> > > One goal is to have dmd use the g++ exception handling mechanism. But > googling how that works, I find dead links, specs that are 15 years old > accompanied by vague comments about it being "extended" and "look at the > g++ source code", etc. > > Are there any actual docs about how it works for x86? Or is it the usual > "take apart the output of g++ and figure it out" that I usually wind up > doing :-( ? > >