From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16689 invoked by alias); 7 Nov 2002 02:34:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 16682 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2002 02:34:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO desire.geoffk.org) (12.235.56.190) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2002 02:34:52 -0000 Received: (from geoffk@localhost) by desire.geoffk.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gA72YjK32480; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:34:45 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: desire.geoffk.org: geoffk set sender to geoffk@geoffk.org using -f To: Richard Henderson Cc: Jakub Jelinek , Aldy Hernandez , "gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org" , "jason@redhat.com" Subject: Re: [basic-improvements] try/finally support for c/c++ - more tests References: <20021106124304.G10988@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <8450000.1036625540@warlock.codesourcery.com> <20021107000307.GQ22215@redhat.com> From: Geoff Keating Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 18:34:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20021107000307.GQ22215@redhat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00401.txt.bz2 Richard Henderson writes: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:32:20PM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote: > > I do not think we should add exception support of any kind to GNU C; use > > C++ if you want exceptions. > > See elsewhere about resistance compiling libc with a c++ compiler. It wouldn't work, anyway. User programs can also use pthread_cleanup_push/pthread_cleanup_pop, in C, so whatever mechanism is used for that must be accessible to C. -- - Geoffrey Keating