Re: try, finally

["Jason Cipriani" <jason dot cipriani at gmail dot com>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Jason Cipriani
<jason.cipriani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does GCC have anything similar to the MS and Borland compiler's __try
>  and __finally keywords? When using GCC I often find that I have code
>  like this (a moderately complex, and highly contrived, example):

Heh, well, the example wasn't really that complex. I had typed a
weirder one and then simplified it but left this comment in.




>
>  ====
>
>   void *data1 = NULL, *data2 = NULL, *data3 = NULL;
>
>   try {
>
>     if (!(data1 = malloc(1000)))
>       throw Something();
>     if (!(data2 = malloc(1000)))
>       throw Something();
>     if (!(data3 = malloc(1000)))
>       throw Something();
>
>   } catch (...) {
>
>     // cleanup code
>     free(data3);
>     free(data2);
>     free(data1);
>     throw;
>
>   }
>
>   // the same cleanup code
>   free(data3);
>   free(data2);
>   free(data1);
>
>  ===
>
>  Where I am duplicating cleanup code for normal returns and exception
>  handling, but what I really want to do is something like this:
>
>  ===
>
>  void *data1 = NULL, *data2 = NULL, *data3 = NULL;
>
>  __try {
>
>   if (!(data1 = malloc(1000)))
>     throw Something();
>   if (!(data2 = malloc(1000)))
>     throw Something();
>   if (!(data3 = malloc(1000)))
>     throw Something();
>
>   // do stuff
>
>  } __finally {
>
>   // cleanup code
>   free(data3);
>   free(data2);
>   free(data1);
>
>  }
>
>  ===
>
>  Thanks,
>  Jason
>