Re: XSH/XRAT conflict over cancellation points

[Henry Spencer <yyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 21 May 2004, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > you're free to implement setjmp() in a way that will allow 
> > you to use it for exception handling.
> 
> That's upside down. C compiler shall translate setjmp() macro 
> to some magic C++ try/catch thing and longjmp() to a rather 
> simple C+ throw.

Very few C compilers work by translating C to C++.

Even the compilers which compile both C and C++ don't necessarily compile
setjmp/longjmp to the same code as try/catch/throw.

                                                          Henry Spencer
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