Re: nptl 0.38

["Alexander Terekhov" <terekhov web de>]

Ulrich Drepper <drepper redhat com> schrieb am 12.05.03 18:53:43:
[...]
> ~ update of the unwinding code to support the compromise wrt C++
>   exception handling.  catch(...) blocks are also executed in case
>   a thread is canceled.  Only catch(...), no other catch variant.
>   This is only logical since the cancellation has no type representable
>   in C++.  

Says who? Braindamaged "forced unwinding"-based (for thread cancel 
and thread exit, jmps aside for a moment) ABI?

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3D205A8A.DEFC922A%40web.de
(Subject: Re: Some issues with Technical Report on C++ Performance (DRAFT))

>  Note that the catch(...) block has to rethrow the exception;
>  otherwise the program will abort.  

That's crappy too. 

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=rJNa8.12%24YS1.142%40news.cpqcorp.net
(Subject: Re: PTHREADS: Longjmp()'ing from cleanup handlers)

<quote>

Sorry, but if you want to "finalize" (catch and continue) a 
cancellation, you need a correct and rational implementation 
of POSIX threads that implements cancellation as an EXCEPTION 
that can be caught. (E.g., with a C++ 'catch(...)', though 
having a standard name for the exception would be even better.)

</quote>

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=3EC12FB0.1AEAF69A%40web.de
(Subject: Re: __attribute__((cleanup(function)) versus try/finally)

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3EC0ECAA.6520B266%40web.de
(Subject: Exception handling... it's time to fix the standard)

regards,
alexander.


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