EH in C (was: Re: (lack of) Thread-safe exceptions on AIX (gcc-2.95.1)

[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:26:36AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> The other thing to consider here is we probably don't want to drag all
> of RTTI into C.

I don't think that's really a problem.  Modulo the cancel-exception
thing, we could model MS EH like

	__try { foo(); }
	__except (some-test) { bar(); }
	__except (some-other-test) { baz(); }
to
	try { foo(); }
	catch (...) {
	  if (some-test) bar();
	  else if (some-other-test) baz();
	  else throw;
	}

Not quite as efficient as triggering off a type, but who ever
worried about run-time efficiency of exceptions, anyway.


r~