Re: [basic-improvements] try/finally support for c/c++ - more tests

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

> You'd have to have sigpause (and the other cancellable calls)
> conditionalised on __cplusplus, and then to permit users to write
> programs in a mix of C and C++ you'd have to define some way to
> convert the exceptions thrown in C++ to the sj/lj calls in C.
OK, I think I see the problem.

Suppose the dynamic stack of your code looks like:

 C++ -> C -> C++ -> sigpause

When cancellation occurs, you want to have sigpause throw an exception,
run cleanups in C++, then run the pthread_cleanup_push stuff in C,
the outer C++ cleanups agagin, etc.

If the -> transitions are shared library boundaries, you have no problem;
you can have your personality routines do the right thing.  In fact, you
can do that anyhow, if you mark your .o's as being C or C++.

In C, you have pthread_cleanup_push keep a stack of cleanups.
When unwinding through a a C .o, you run the stack.  In C++, you use
my pthread_cleanup_push class so that it just happens by itself.

You have sigpause throw an exception, and you have a handler at the top
of the stack, to finish the thread exit.  (This last bit is what was
going to happen with try/finally anyhow, I assume.)

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