Re: objc native exceptions

[Andrew Pinski]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
> I was wondering if there was any good reason why gnustep-make doesn't enable
> native exceptions by default if the compiler supports it.
> I think the answer is that we can't readily install a default handler for
> uncaught exceptions or support NSSetUncaughtExceptionHandler() with the
> current state of the compiler/runtime as it does not provide us with any API
> to deal with an exception thrown outside of a @try block.
>
> Would it be OK to add that functionality to the runtime in
> objc_exception_throw() with two new functions something like this:
>

Yes in fact it was on my list of things TODO, see
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27466 :).

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski