Exceptions in C with Longjmp and Setjmp

Re:Exceptions in C with Longjmp and Setjmp by rcfox on Sunday March 25, 2012 @03:24AM (#3751961)

I think the requirement of the ETRY macro solidifies this as a neat trick, and not something you actually want to use in a project.

Forget ETRY once and you can kiss your afternoon goodbye while you debug.

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Re:Exceptions in C with Longjmp and Setjmp by daeken on Sunday March 25, 2012 @05:39AM (#3752178)

Ever left a semicolon off of a struct definition? Forgetting end statements/tokens will frequently lead to debugging pain, but that doesn't make it any less valid. As noted elsewhere, ReactOS uses a very similar structure to great effect.

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Re:Exceptions in C with Longjmp and Setjmp by rcfox on Sunday March 25, 2012 @05:44AM (#3752187)

Missing a semicolon has a chance of giving a useful error message. Without knowing what ETRY translates to, you have no hope of finding here it's missing.

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Re:Exceptions in C with Longjmp and Setjmp by JoachimSchipper on Sunday March 25, 2012 @06:47AM (#3752264)

On one hand, I agree. On the other, POSIX already has EINTR... (and yes, this does cause lots of bugs.)

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