On Jul 19, 2013, at 2:26 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Windows has a feature that I've wanted on Linux forever: stack-based > (i.e. scoped) exception handling. The upshot is that you can do, > roughly, this (pseudocode):
[...] Indeed Windows and OpenVMS have such a mechanism. That's clean and library friendly, but please read: https://www.usenix.org/conference/wiess-2000/c-exception-handling-ia64 to understand how it hurts optimization. (And no, raising an exception from an handler doesn't always work, due to optimizations allowed by the gcc exception mechanism). Regards, Tristan. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
