On 8 Feb 2009, at 06:47, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
Actually, I take it back ... maybe we can recover from an uncaught
exception.
Problem is ... if we are using native exceptions ... by the time
the uncaught handler is called we have unwound the stack entirely
and the program has no way to continue running. But maybe the
native handling code can actually cope with that (or be changed to
do that).
I've been doing personality function hacking recently, so I'd be
happy to take a look at this if it's desired.
When the stack is unwound by native ('zero-cost') exceptions, the
unwind library calls the personality function twice for each frame.
The first time is to find the landing pad, the second time is to
perform the unwinding (call cleanup code in each intervening frame
and then continue unwinding).
For a while, I've been pondering adding the Étoilé resumable
exception stuff to the unwinding system. This would call the
unhandled exception function at the top of the stack, before
unwinding, and allow it to either call _Unwind_Resume() or continue,
depending on the exception.