Find all unambiguous public classes of the exception object's class type
and reference all of their copy constructors. Yes, this is not
conforming but it is necessary in order to implement their ABI. This is
because the copy constructor is actually referenced by the metadata
describing which catch handlers are eligible to handle the exception
object.
N.B. This doesn't yet handle the copy constructor closure case yet,
that work is ongoing.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8101
llvm-svn: 231499
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
