implement __attribute__((cleanup(function)))

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Tue, 6 May 2003, Michael Matz wrote:
> I hereby request as formerly as I know that the steering committee
> discusses and resolves the issue about try/finally in GCC.

I have forwarded your message with some explanations (for those who
might not have followed the issue closely).

> _My_ personal opinion is that we will accept it if we can define it.
> There were useful definitions of it in the past (I remember to have
> written one some months ago, when it was a hot topic on gcc-patches@).
> As we can't seem to resolve it by normal discussions and that leads to
> (seemingly) frustration of developers I think the committee should do,
> what it was supposed to do (IMHO).

What would help, I guess, are references/statements by those in favor
of try/finally and those against it.

If you (Plural) send self-contained explanations of your point of view
to the gcc list or me, I'll happily forward them as well.

On Tue, 6 May 2003, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> At the risk of being obvious, I don't believe that discussion is
> appropriate for 3.3.  I also don't see any actual risk in adding
> __attribute__((cleanup)) on the branch.  So can we have this discussion
> in a few weeks, please?

Alexandre argued that the extension may not without problems.

I have no strong opinion either way yet, but in any case, should we risk
shipping something in GCC 3.3 when we are not confident that we won't
completely revert directions and remove the extension in GCC 3.4 in favor
of a different one?

Gerald
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