2015 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: R. Kleckner & D. Majnemer “Exception handling in LLVM...“

— Exception handling in LLVM, from Itanium to MSVC - Reid Kleckner, Google & David Majnemer, Google Slides: — This talk covers the design and implementation of MSVC-compatible exception handling in Clang and LLVM. Unlike the Itanium C exception handling model, the Windows exception handling model is not designed around successive unwinding. As a result, the existing LLVM landingpad instructio