Stefan Behnel, 29.06.2012 07:45: > [moving this to cython-devel as it's getting technical] > > Robert Bradshaw, 28.06.2012 21:46: >> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote: >>> currently, when I write "new CppClass()" in Cython, it generates a straight >>> call to the "new" operator. It doesn't do any error handling. And the >>> current documentation doesn't even mention this case. >>> >>> Is there a "standard" way to handle this? It seems that C++ has different >>> ways to deal with failures here but raises an exception by default. Would >>> you declare the constructor(s) with an "except +MemoryError"? Is there a >>> reason Cython shouldn't be doing this automatically (if nothing else was >>> declared) ? >> >> I think it certainly makes sense to declare the default constructor as >> "except +" (and std::bad_alloc should become MemoryError), > > Right. The code in the constructor can raise other exceptions that must > also be handled properly. An explicit "except +" will handle that.
What about the declarations that we ship in libcpp.*? They currently lack any such exception declarations. Can we safely add them where appropriate? And, would someone care to do it? Stefan _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
