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馃洡 Exception handling #1078

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jfbastien opened this issue May 25, 2017 · 1 comment
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馃洡 Exception handling #1078

jfbastien opened this issue May 25, 2017 · 1 comment

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jfbastien commented May 25, 2017

This is a tracking issue for a post-MVP feature
It will be updated as the issue progresses.

Topic Exception handling
Champion Heejin Ahn (@aheejin)
Status In progress
Phase Feature proposal
Linked issues #417
Linked repositories github.com/WebAssembly/exception-handling

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The WebAssembly MVP supports four no-exception modes for C++:

  • Compiler transforms throw to abort().
  • Compiler-enforced -fno-exceptions mode (note caveats).
  • Compiler conversion of exceptions to branching at all callsites.
  • In a Web environment exception handling can be emulated using JavaScript exception handling, which can provide correct semantics but isn't fast.

These modes are suboptimal for code bases which rely on C++ exception handling, but are perfectly acceptable for C code, or for C++ code which avoids exceptions. This doesn't prevent developers from using the C++ standard library: their code will function correctly (albeit slower at times) as long as it doesn't encounter exceptional cases.

Post-MVP, WebAssembly will gain support for zero-cost exception handling.

In turn, this can be used to implement setjmp/longjmp, and can enable all of the defined behavior of setjmp/longjmp, namely unwinding the stack without calling C++ destructors. It does not, however, allow the undefined behavior case of jumping forward to a stack that was already unwound which is sometimes used to implement coroutines. Coroutine support is being considered separately.

jfbastien added a commit that referenced this issue May 25, 2017
Now tracked by: #1078
As discussed here: #1066
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olonho referenced this issue in JetBrains/kotlin-native Jul 7, 2017
@binji binji assigned aheejin and unassigned KarlSchimpf Aug 7, 2018
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binji commented Oct 16, 2018

Moved to WebAssembly/proposals#4.

@binji binji closed this as completed Oct 16, 2018
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