Re: Patch: Exception Handling in libobjc2 with latest clang builds

[Mathias Bauer]

Sorry, I accidently pushed the button too early.  :-[

Now with patch. :-)

Am 10.03.14 11:25, schrieb Mathias Bauer:
> Hi dear list,
>
> as already reported here, the exception handling in libobjc2 does not
> work correctly on ARM platforms. The personality routine misses the
> virtual stack unwinding required by the ARM EHABI spec.
>
> I asked Logan Chien, who was involved in getting the ARM EHABHI stuff
> into llvm, for help and he sent me a patch that solved the problem.
>
> The patch makes the ExceptionTest.m work on the ARM systems he and I
> tested it on. The test cases for C++ and foreign exceptions still don't
> work, buth there are other reasons for that (e.g. that the code that
> there is no code that handles C++ exceptions on ARM).
>
> So first of all: many thanks to Logan!
>
> He asked me to post the patch here, so that's what I do now. Please give
> it a review.
>
>
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0001-Fix-ARM-exception-handling-with-_URC_CONTINUE_UNWIND.patch
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