Exception Handling? Impossible!

[Robert Stroud]

Rich Wagner (richw at ada-uts.UUCP) posted some macros for exception handling
and asked for comments and suggestions.

I can recommend an article in Software Practice & Experience by Peter Lee
a few years ago (1983, pp 389-405) which describes a series of macros and
routines which add exception handling in the style of Ada or Clu to C.
Basically they work by hiding a stack of setjmp/longjmp contexts inside
a macro skeleton of

	BEGIN
	   ...
	EXCEPT
	   WHEN(exception1) ...
	   WHEN(exception2) ...
	   OTHERS ...
	END

I can post the code from the article if there is enough interest.

Robert Stroud,
Computing Laboratory,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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