<?php

try
{
throw new Exception();
}
catch(Exception $e) {}
?>

produces the VLD codes:
number of ops: 13
line # op fetch ext operands

5 0 NOP
7 1 EXT_STMT
2 ZEND_FETCH_CLASS :0, 'Exception'
3 EXT_FCALL_BEGIN
4 NEW $1, :0
5 DO_FCALL_BY_NAME 0 0
6 EXT_FCALL_END
7 ZEND_THROW $1
9 8 ZEND_FETCH_CLASS :3, 'Exception'
9 ZEND_CATCH null, 'e'
11 10 EXT_STMT
11 RETURN 1
12* ZEND_HANDLE_EXCEPTION