MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> writes:
> When writing the C code for the new regex module I thought that it
> would've been easier if I could've used exceptions to propagate errors
> and unwind the stack, instead of having to return an error code which
> had to be checked by the caller, and then have the caller explicitly
> return an error code to /its/ caller.

That's called longjmp.

> Automatic garbage collection would also have been nice.

alloca might help.
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