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Re: EH in C (was: Re: (lack of) Thread-safe exceptions on AIX (gcc-2.95.1)
- To: Bill Tutt <rassilon at list dot org>
- Subject: Re: EH in C (was: Re: (lack of) Thread-safe exceptions on AIX (gcc-2.95.1)
- From: Bill Tutt <rassilon at list dot org>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:49:01 -0800 (PST)
- cc: Zack Weinberg <zack at wolery dot cumb dot org>, Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>, llewelly at 198 dot dsl dot xmission dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Bill Tutt wrote:
> Which looks frightfully silly to me. If you're only talking about
> synchrnous exception handling, I still don't see why C would need a
> try/catch syntax since it doesn't have any useful understanding of the
> exception state at all.
>
Unless of course you do want to give C some understanding of the C++
exception state, which I haven't seen anyone even come close to
suggesting.
Bill