llvm-project/clang
David Majnemer 7c23707174 MS ABI: Implement support for throwing a C++ exception
Throwing a C++ exception, under the MS ABI, is implemented using three
components:
- ThrowInfo structure which contains information like CV qualifiers,
  what destructor to call and a pointer to the CatchableTypeArray.
- In a significant departure from the Itanium ABI, copying by-value
  occurs in the runtime and not at the catch site.  This means we need
  to enumerate all possible types that this exception could be caught as
  and encode the necessary information to convert from the exception
  object's type to the catch handler's type.  This includes complicated
  derived to base conversions and the execution of copy-constructors.

N.B. This implementation doesn't support the execution of a
copy-constructor from within the runtime for now.  Adding support for
that functionality is quite difficult due to things like default
argument expressions which may evaluate arbitrary code hiding in the
copy-constructor's parameters.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8066

llvm-svn: 231328
2015-03-05 00:46:22 +00:00
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INPUTS
bindings This reverts commit r227432, r227438 and r227448. 2015-01-29 17:22:53 +00:00
cmake/modules Make it easier to build against a pre-built Clang package with CMake 2014-11-05 23:14:59 +00:00
docs [UBSan] Split -fsanitize=shift into -fsanitize=shift-base and -fsanitize=shift-exponent. 2015-03-03 22:15:35 +00:00
examples Replace size() calls on containers with empty() calls where appropriate. NFC 2015-01-23 15:36:10 +00:00
include MS ABI: Implement support for throwing a C++ exception 2015-03-05 00:46:22 +00:00
lib MS ABI: Implement support for throwing a C++ exception 2015-03-05 00:46:22 +00:00
runtime Remove support for building sanitizers from Makefile/autoconf build on Linux. 2015-02-18 22:26:22 +00:00
test MS ABI: Implement support for throwing a C++ exception 2015-03-05 00:46:22 +00:00
tools Migrate clang-format-vs plugin project to VS 2013 2015-03-03 17:30:50 +00:00
unittests [analyzer] Individual configuration options can be specified for checkers. 2015-03-04 17:59:34 +00:00
utils Replace size() calls on containers with empty() calls where appropriate. NFC 2015-01-23 15:36:10 +00:00
www Fix typo. 2015-02-25 23:48:35 +00:00
.arcconfig
.clang-format
.clang-tidy Enable display of compiler diagnostics in clang-tidy. 2014-10-29 17:28:51 +00:00
.gitignore
CMakeLists.txt clang/CMakeLists.txt: Introduce LLVM_SHLIB_OUTPUT_INTDIR also here, or plugins tests might fail. 2015-01-05 14:06:14 +00:00
CODE_OWNERS.TXT Add myself as a code owner for Microsoft C++ ABI code and general Windows support 2015-02-26 20:37:49 +00:00
INSTALL.txt
LICENSE.TXT
Makefile
ModuleInfo.txt
NOTES.txt
README.txt

README.txt

//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
// C Language Family Front-end
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//

Welcome to Clang.  This is a compiler front-end for the C family of languages
(C, C++, Objective-C, and Objective-C++) which is built as part of the LLVM
compiler infrastructure project.

Unlike many other compiler frontends, Clang is useful for a number of things
beyond just compiling code: we intend for Clang to be host to a number of
different source-level tools.  One example of this is the Clang Static Analyzer.

If you're interested in more (including how to build Clang) it is best to read
the relevant web sites.  Here are some pointers:

Information on Clang:              http://clang.llvm.org/
Building and using Clang:          http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
Clang Static Analyzer:             http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/
Information on the LLVM project:   http://llvm.org/

If you have questions or comments about Clang, a great place to discuss them is
on the Clang development mailing list:
  http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev

If you find a bug in Clang, please file it in the LLVM bug tracker:
  http://llvm.org/bugs/