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

[Mikael Lyngvig]

Hi Ivo,

Thanks for your pointer - I'll be sure to follow up on it.

If anyone feels like besting the beast of adding C exception handling to
Tiny C or GNU C or OpenWatcom, please feel free to write me directly at
address@hidden  I'll quit this list in a few days and leave you guys
to working towards your goal of ISO 99 compliance.

Exceptions are wonderful for making you capable of coding without having
to check return values and without all sorts of hassle about handling
errors that you cannot really handle anyway (for instance, a decompressor
does not know anything about what kind of user interface it has: GUI or
CLI, so it cannot really report errors in the input stream properly).

Cheers,
Mikael

> 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.
>
> Regards,
> --Ivo
>
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