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Friday, October 30 • 11:15am - 12:00pm
Exception handling in LLVM, from Itanium to MSVC

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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 instruction is insufficient for expressing how Windows exceptions should be handled. To support Windows exceptions, we added the new token type and a family of new EH pad instructions to LLVM. This talk describes the final design of the new representation and the tradeoffs we made along the way.


Speakers
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Reid Kleckner

Software Engineer, Google
I work on Clang, the C++ compiler. I specifically work on C++ ABI compatibility with MSVC, and other Windows-related issues in Clang.


Friday October 30, 2015 11:15am - 12:00pm PDT
Salon I & Salon II

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