Andrew Pinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > 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?
The front-end in question has stopped working because the traditional setjmp/longjmp translation of try/catch constructs is no longer working correctly with versions of GCC higher than 4.0. What is important for the front-end is that the try-block part is handled correctly; that I don't see the cleanup attributes provides. Given that GNU C does not have linguistic constructs for exceptions, it is not obvious to me how -fexceptions helps. -- Gaby
