How are exceptions implemented under the hood?

Question

Just about everyone uses them, but many, including me simply take it for granted that they just work.

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Answer 1

The best paper ever written on the implementation of exceptions (under the hood) is Exception Handling in CLU by Barbara Liskov and Alan Snyder. I have referred to it every time I've started a new compiler.

For a somewhat higher-level view of an implementation in C using setjmp and longjmp, I recommend Dave Hanson's C Interfaces and Implementations (like Eli Bendersky).