On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:41 PM, ymeroz at earthlink dot net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a language syntax issue, as I see it. Variable type can not change by > itself in mid-scope in C++ or Obj-C. This is not an issue of runtime > implementation.
It is a little of both really. The way the runtime implements @throw is via setjmp/longjmp and the compiler has to change them to volatile variables. I told Apple not to do this but I guess they never understood how exceptions are used. Thanks, Andrew Pinski