Ivo wrote:
On Thursday 03 September 2009 16:21, Mikael Lyngvig wrote:
I can see that almost 40 people have read my little "paper" on extending
C with exception handling, but I have received no emails regarding the
issue.
One of those 40 was me. In principle, I like your implementation, but I
don't think it belongs in a C compiler. I don't get the whole fuzz about
exceptions anyway. Nevertheless, if you want to find people that might be
interrested in your ideas, I think the LLVM development mailinglist would
be your best choice. Especially if you could make it work for C++
execptions, too. IIRC, there has been a thread there about different
trade-offs for exception handling implementations recently.
I've read it too. To Mikael:
I think it will have to be the original author's responsibility to
create a usable implementation, since it appears the paper has not
excited anyone. Wrapping a single statement in a try{} block is a
trivial example; you need to show non-trivial examples, plus
things like throwing across call boundaries, etc. Also, C++
handles object destruction etc., and also, there are downsides to
over-using the exception paradigm. It's a hard sell.
Since you have not heard from anyone, realistically I think you
will need to do your own implementation. Often, active Open Source
developers have too many ideas, too little time. For most FLOSS
projects, developer resources is a very scarce commodity.
Even if tcc adopts an implementation, it will only be a curio,
because tcc not being a mainstream production compiler cannot
drive adoption of cute stuff. Hence, this is a really uphill
thing... good luck anyway.
--
Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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