Re: [Tinycc-devel] C Exception Handling: Any takers?

[KHMan]

Ivo wrote:
> On Thursday 03 September 2009 16:21, Mikael Lyngvig wrote:
> > I can see that almost 40 people have read my little "paper" on extending
> > C with exception handling, but I have received no emails regarding the
> > issue.
>
> One of those 40 was me. In principle, I like your implementation, but I 
> don't think it belongs in a C compiler. I don't get the whole fuzz about 
> exceptions anyway. Nevertheless, if you want to find people that might be 
> interrested in your ideas, I think the LLVM development mailinglist would 
> be your best choice. Especially if you could make it work for C++ 
> execptions, too. IIRC, there has been a thread there about different 
> trade-offs for exception handling implementations recently.

I've read it too. To Mikael:

I think it will have to be the original author's responsibility to 
create a usable implementation, since it appears the paper has not 
excited anyone. Wrapping a single statement in a try{} block is a 
trivial example; you need to show non-trivial examples, plus 
things like throwing across call boundaries, etc. Also, C++ 
handles object destruction etc., and also, there are downsides to 
over-using the exception paradigm. It's a hard sell.

Since you have not heard from anyone, realistically I think you 
will need to do your own implementation. Often, active Open Source 
developers have too many ideas, too little time. For most FLOSS 
projects, developer resources is a very scarce commodity.

Even if tcc adopts an implementation, it will only be a curio, 
because tcc not being a mainstream production compiler cannot 
drive adoption of cute stuff. Hence, this is a really uphill 
thing... good luck anyway.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia