Gabriel Dos Reis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > while looking into a recent mismatch between GCC-4.x and a C dialect > EH implemented as setjmp/longjmp, I recalled there was a talk about > extending GNU C with __try/__finally construct: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-11/msg00239.html > > What happened to that project? Is it dead for good?
The discussion kind of wandered off, but I'd like to note that I am in favor of adding __try/__finally as a GNU extension for both C and C++. It's true, of course, that it's just syntactic sugar which can be implemented in other ways, but sometimes sugar is sweet. Ian
