> > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:21:03PM -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote: > > > while looking into a recent mismatch between GCC-4.x and a C dialect > > > EH implemented as setjmp/longjmp, I recalled there was a talk about > > > extending GNU C with __try/__finally construct: > > > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-11/msg00239.html > > > > > > What happened to that project? Is it dead for good? > > > > Doesn't the cleanup attribute to a variable do close to the same thing? > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html > > It's not a replacement, because a finally clause, like a C++ catch > clause, has access to any automatic variable in scope. You can only > pass one argument to a cleanup function, so to port a program that > uses try/finally could require a major rewrite.
Nested functions come in handy here really. -- Pinski
