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Use RC-counted exceptions by default #37

Open wilzbach opened 5 years ago

wilzbach commented 5 years ago

Description

DIP1008 allows allocating and catching exceptions in @nogc code.

What are rough milestones of this project?

Make Druntime and Phobos compile with -preview=dip1008
Make all projects on the project tester compile with -preview=dip1008
Switch the flip

How does this project help the D community?

This will finally allow exceptions to be used in @nogc code and thus greatly increase the usage area of @nogc.

Recommended skills

Intermediate D knowledge
Understanding of DIP1008
Being able to build DRuntime of Phobos

Point of Contact

@wilzbach

References

https://github.com/dlang/DIPs/blob/master/DIPs/DIP1008.md
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8508 (shows what breaks when flipping the switch)