diff --git a/src/tools/run-make-support/src/external_deps/rustc.rs b/src/tools/run-make-support/src/external_deps/rustc.rs
index cabfbd59c482e..cece58d29566c 100644
--- a/src/tools/run-make-support/src/external_deps/rustc.rs
+++ b/src/tools/run-make-support/src/external_deps/rustc.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ use crate::command::Command;
 use crate::env::env_var;
 use crate::path_helpers::cwd;
 use crate::util::set_host_rpath;
-use crate::{is_msvc, is_windows, uname};
+use crate::{is_darwin, is_msvc, is_windows, uname};
 
 /// Construct a new `rustc` invocation. This will automatically set the library
 /// search path as `-L cwd()`. Use [`bare_rustc`] to avoid this.
@@ -344,10 +344,26 @@ impl Rustc {
         // endif
         // ```
         let flag = if is_windows() {
+            // So this is a bit hacky: we can't use the DLL version of libstdc++ because
+            // it pulls in the DLL version of libgcc, which means that we end up with 2
+            // instances of the DW2 unwinding implementation. This is a problem on
+            // i686-pc-windows-gnu because each module (DLL/EXE) needs to register its
+            // unwind information with the unwinding implementation, and libstdc++'s
+            // __cxa_throw won't see the unwinding info we registered with our statically
+            // linked libgcc.
+            //
+            // Now, simply statically linking libstdc++ would fix this problem, except
+            // that it is compiled with the expectation that pthreads is dynamically
+            // linked as a DLL and will fail to link with a statically linked libpthread.
+            //
+            // So we end up with the following hack: we link use static:-bundle to only
+            // link the parts of libstdc++ that we actually use, which doesn't include
+            // the dependency on the pthreads DLL.
             if is_msvc() { None } else { Some("-lstatic:-bundle=stdc++") }
+        } else if is_darwin() {
+            Some("-lc++")
         } else {
             match &uname()[..] {
-                "Darwin" => Some("-lc++"),
                 "FreeBSD" | "SunOS" | "OpenBSD" => None,
                 _ => Some("-lstdc++"),
             }
diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt b/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
index 12c91616e7e10..21045ae393390 100644
--- a/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ run-make/emit-to-stdout/Makefile
 run-make/export-executable-symbols/Makefile
 run-make/extern-fn-reachable/Makefile
 run-make/fmt-write-bloat/Makefile
-run-make/foreign-exceptions/Makefile
 run-make/foreign-rust-exceptions/Makefile
 run-make/incr-add-rust-src-component/Makefile
 run-make/issue-35164/Makefile
diff --git a/tests/run-make/foreign-double-unwind/rmake.rs b/tests/run-make/foreign-double-unwind/rmake.rs
index b2ac8bfbeadf1..9bd3b4c0fea5b 100644
--- a/tests/run-make/foreign-double-unwind/rmake.rs
+++ b/tests/run-make/foreign-double-unwind/rmake.rs
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
 //@ ignore-cross-compile
 // Reason: the compiled binary is executed
 
-use run_make_support::{build_native_static_lib_cxx, run, rustc};
+use run_make_support::{build_native_static_lib_cxx, run_fail, rustc};
 
 fn main() {
     build_native_static_lib_cxx("foo");
     rustc().input("foo.rs").arg("-lfoo").extra_rs_cxx_flags().run();
-    run("foo").assert_stdout_not_contains("unreachable");
+    run_fail("foo").assert_stdout_not_contains("unreachable");
 }
diff --git a/tests/run-make/foreign-exceptions/Makefile b/tests/run-make/foreign-exceptions/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 56c41b274fb2e..0000000000000
--- a/tests/run-make/foreign-exceptions/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-# ignore-cross-compile
-# needs-unwind
-include ../tools.mk
-
-all: foo
-	$(call RUN,foo)
-
-foo: foo.rs $(call NATIVE_STATICLIB,foo)
-	$(RUSTC) $< -lfoo $(EXTRARSCXXFLAGS)
-
-$(TMPDIR)/libfoo.o: foo.cpp
-	$(call COMPILE_OBJ_CXX,$@,$<)
diff --git a/tests/run-make/foreign-exceptions/rmake.rs b/tests/run-make/foreign-exceptions/rmake.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dd24b41ca1598
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run-make/foreign-exceptions/rmake.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+// This test was created to check that compilation and execution still works
+// after the addition of a new feature, in #65646: the ability to unwind panics
+// and exceptions back and forth between Rust and C++. Should this feature be broken,
+// the test should fail.
+// See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/65646
+
+//@ needs-unwind
+// Reason: this test exercises panic unwinding
+//@ ignore-cross-compile
+// Reason: the compiled binary is executed
+
+use run_make_support::{build_native_static_lib_cxx, run, rustc};
+
+fn main() {
+    build_native_static_lib_cxx("foo");
+    rustc().input("foo.rs").arg("-lfoo").extra_rs_cxx_flags().run();
+    run("foo");
+}