How are exceptions actually implemented in assembly?

[Martin von Loewis]

bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) writes:

> I am not speaking as compiler developer, but I imagine that a
> compiler could generate information stored in static tables that
> describe try blocks and their associated exception handlers, to
> support unwinding the stack and finding an exception handler for a
> raised exception.

This is precisely what many C++ compilers do, and this is also how
Java bytecode works.

Regards,
Martin