> > 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.
How is it no longer working? I don't understand how it could break. Now if the front-end was converting the functions with marking some live variables with violatile, it would have caused problems with GCC before 3.4.x also. -- Pinski
