Re: Mysterious crash in NSRunLoop, using libobjc2 on Linux

[Lobron, David]

>>> Just use @try and @catch.  If you can find a smallish test case, please 
>>> file a bug on GitHub and I’ll take a look.  Ideally, a test case shouldn’t 
>>> depend on anything other than libobjc2 - take a look at the existing EH 
>>> tests and see if you can make a similar one that shows the issue.
>> 
>> I've been trying combinations of C++ and ObjC exceptions in a .mm file, and 
>> so far I haven't been able to reproduce the abort behavior.  I've attached 
>> my latest code, which throws ObjC and C++ exceptions from C++ and ObjC 
>> classes, and catches them.  Please let me know if you can think of any 
>> variations I haven't tried here.  
>> 
> 
> If the failure is what I suspect that it is, then it’s a problem caused by 
> mixing C++ and Objective-C exception unwinding, so it won’t be possible to 
> reproduce in a single file.  You will need to throw an exception from 
> Objective-C++ and have it pass through stack frames from an Objective-C 
> compilation unit that includes an @finally block that runs some code, and 
> then be caught in an Objective-C++ compilation unit.  

Ah, got it.  I will try this.  

Would separate .o files linked into a single binary be sufficient for counting 
as separate compilation units?  Or would it be better to compile and link a 
shared library, and pick it up at runtime?

--David