diff --git a/Interop/Runtime/src/native/kotlin/kotlinx/cinterop/ObjectiveCImpl.kt b/Interop/Runtime/src/native/kotlin/kotlinx/cinterop/ObjectiveCImpl.kt
index edc97f629b1..c658e11e084 100644
--- a/Interop/Runtime/src/native/kotlin/kotlinx/cinterop/ObjectiveCImpl.kt
+++ b/Interop/Runtime/src/native/kotlin/kotlinx/cinterop/ObjectiveCImpl.kt
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import kotlin.native.internal.ExportTypeInfo
 import kotlin.native.internal.ExportForCppRuntime
 import kotlin.native.internal.TypedIntrinsic
 import kotlin.native.internal.IntrinsicType
+import kotlin.native.internal.FilterExceptions
 
 interface ObjCObject
 interface ObjCClass : ObjCObject
@@ -207,6 +208,7 @@ external fun objc_autoreleasePoolPush(): NativePtr
 external fun objc_autoreleasePoolPop(ptr: NativePtr)
 
 @SymbolName("Kotlin_objc_allocWithZone")
+@FilterExceptions
 private external fun objc_allocWithZone(clazz: NativePtr): NativePtr
 
 @SymbolName("Kotlin_objc_retain")
diff --git a/backend.native/tests/build.gradle b/backend.native/tests/build.gradle
index 149120e49ba..f7ffc89b543 100644
--- a/backend.native/tests/build.gradle
+++ b/backend.native/tests/build.gradle
@@ -3335,6 +3335,13 @@ Task interopTest(String name, Closure<KonanInteropTest> configureClosure) {
     }
 }
 
+
+standaloneTest("interop_objc_allocException") {
+    disabled = !isAppleTarget(project)
+    expectedExitStatus = 0
+    source = "interop/objc/allocException.kt"
+}
+
 interopTest("interop0") {
     disabled = (project.testTarget == 'wasm32') ||         // No interop for wasm yet.
                (project.testTarget == 'linux_mips32') ||   //  st_uid of '/' is not equal to 0 when using qemu
diff --git a/backend.native/tests/interop/objc/allocException.kt b/backend.native/tests/interop/objc/allocException.kt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eedb5c9d0f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend.native/tests/interop/objc/allocException.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2010-2019 JetBrains s.r.o. Use of this source code is governed by the Apache 2.0 license
+ * that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+ */
+
+import platform.Foundation.*
+import platform.objc.*
+import kotlin.test.*
+
+import kotlinx.cinterop.*
+import platform.posix.*
+import kotlin.system.exitProcess
+
+fun exc_handler(x: Any?) : Unit {
+    println("Uncaught exception handler")
+    println(x.toString())
+    exitProcess(0)
+}
+
+fun main() {
+    objc_setUncaughtExceptionHandler(staticCFunction(::exc_handler))
+
+    println(NSJSONSerialization())
+}