diff --git a/lib/llvm-backend/src/platform/unix.rs b/lib/llvm-backend/src/platform/unix.rs
index 6b6f8356e..585797b0a 100644
--- a/lib/llvm-backend/src/platform/unix.rs
+++ b/lib/llvm-backend/src/platform/unix.rs
@@ -61,81 +61,11 @@ extern "C" fn signal_trap_handler(
     ucontext: *mut c_void,
 ) {
     unsafe {
-        /// By setting the instruction pointer of the interrupted context
-        /// to `throw_trap` and the register of the first argument
-        /// to the trap ID, we can approximate throwing an exception
-        /// from a signal handler.
-        set_context_to_throw(ucontext);
+        /// Apparently, we can unwind from arbitary instructions, as long
+        /// as we don't need to catch the exception inside the function that
+        /// was interrupted.
+        ///
+        /// This works on macos, not sure about linux.
+        throw_trap(2);
     }
 }
-
-#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
-unsafe fn set_context_to_throw(ucontext: *mut c_void) {
-    use libc::{ucontext_t, RDI, RIP};
-
-    let ucontext = ucontext as *mut ucontext_t;
-    (*ucontext).uc_mcontext.gregs[RIP as usize] = throw_trap as u64;
-    (*ucontext).uc_mcontext.gregs[RDI as usize] = 2; // `MemoryOutOfBounds` variant.
-}
-
-#[cfg(all(target_os = "macos", target_arch = "x86_64"))]
-unsafe fn set_context_to_throw(ucontext: *mut c_void) {
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
-    #[repr(C)]
-    struct ucontext_t {
-        uc_onstack: u32,
-        uc_sigmask: u32,
-        uc_stack: libc::stack_t,
-        uc_link: *const ucontext_t,
-        uc_mcsize: u64,
-        uc_mcontext: *mut mcontext_t,
-    }
-    #[repr(C)]
-    struct exception_state {
-        trapno: u16,
-        cpu: u16,
-        err: u32,
-        faultvaddr: u64,
-    }
-    #[repr(C)]
-    struct regs {
-        rax: u64,
-        rbx: u64,
-        rcx: u64,
-        rdx: u64,
-        rdi: u64,
-        rsi: u64,
-        rbp: u64,
-        rsp: u64,
-        r8: u64,
-        r9: u64,
-        r10: u64,
-        r11: u64,
-        r12: u64,
-        r13: u64,
-        r14: u64,
-        r15: u64,
-        rip: u64,
-        rflags: u64,
-        cs: u64,
-        fs: u64,
-        gs: u64,
-    }
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
-    #[repr(C)]
-    struct mcontext_t {
-        es: exception_state,
-        ss: regs,
-        // ...
-    }
-
-    let ucontext = ucontext as *mut ucontext_t;
-    (*(*ucontext).uc_mcontext).ss.rip = throw_trap as u64;
-    (*(*ucontext).uc_mcontext).ss.rdi = 2; // `MemoryOutOfBounds` variant.
-}
-
-#[cfg(not(any(
-    all(target_os = "macos", target_arch = "x86_64"),
-    all(target_os = "linux", target_arch = "x86_64"),
-)))]
-compile_error!("This crate doesn't yet support compiling on operating systems other than linux and macos and architectures other than x86_64");