LLVM Social #25 - Stack unwinding, landing pads, and other catches

In our first meetup after the summer break Alex Denisov will give a high-level overview of exception handling and supporting mechanisms provided in LLVM.

What to expect:

• challenges of "normal" error handling and how exceptions are different
• which mechanisms LLVM provides to support exception handling
• stack unwinding, landing pads, personality functions, libunwind
• toy example of exception handling in LLVM IR + custom runtime support

No prior knowledge of LLVM or exceptions is required.

Once discussions fade into casual conversation, we typically go for drinks to c-base or one of the surrounding bars. There is always space for outside topics and discussions. If you have specific questions, please bring them. Looking forward to meeting everyone again!