Re: Regarding exceptions

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

Am Samstag, den 04.09.2004, 23:17 -0400 schrieb Matthias Clasen:
> Am Samstag, den 04.09.2004, 16:07 +0100 schrieb Andy Wingo:
> > Hey all,
> > 
> > I'm the maintainer of the guile bindings for the gnome library stack.
> > Like many other languages with gtk bindings, guile supports nonlocal
> > exits via exceptions. Guile's exceptions jump down the stack using
> > setjmp() and longjmp(), like those of perl and C++. (Python uses the
> > more unix-y magic return value to indicate an exception was thrown,
> > AFAIK.)
> > 
> > GLib-based libraries, however, are not exception-safe, because they
> > (naturally) assume that they can clean up after calling a function or a
> > closure. This means that one cannot throw an exception across Gtk+ or
> > GObject code without a likely segfault or other baby-killing error.
> > 
> > This is a problem in the sense that it limits the expressivity of
> > higher-level languages to a common denominator of C. It would be nice if
> > this limitation could be removed.
> > 
> > I have a proposal that I'd like some comment on. The whole idea might
> > just be too complicated; do let me know if this is way off the deep end.
> > 
> 
> A

Sorry about that...I wanted to point to 
http://www.freetype.org/david/reliable-c.html
for information about exception handling in C.

Matthias