Re: Exception handling on the Palm worth the bother?

[Ben Combee]

At 20:48 2003-2-7 -0500, you wrote:

There is an ErrTry, ErrThrow, and ErrCatch mechanism for Palm.  See the Palm
OS API Reference manual for specifics.  They work similarly to the C++
mechanism, but don't introduce the overhead.

True, there is little overhead, but you don't get the destructor-calling benefits of C++ exceptions. This can leave resources stranded if you use this mechanism with C++ apps. ErrTry/ErrThrow/ErrCatch are basically macro wrappers around C's setjmp/longjmp library calls.

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Palm OS programming help @ www.palmoswerks.com

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