Re: Exceptions in glib

[Andreas Bogk <andreas andreas org>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> You missed a huge one, which is that exceptions are useless unless you
> have destructors and functions can automatically free their local
> variables as the exception throws through the function. There's no way
> to write exception-safe C code.

The canonical solution to this is of course garbage collection, which
would make exceptions in C manageable. But I bet that's a topic that
has been discussed here (and probably rejected) before as well...

Andreas