rpc exception

[Gregory M. Turner]

On Monday 21 April 2003 10:55 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> "Dimitrie O. Paun" <dpaun at rogers.com> writes:
> needed. I don't think any other C compiler supports local functions
> (even g++ doesn't AFAIK), so there won't be much hope of ever making
> it work.

gosh, that sucks.

> Of course we could decide to stop supporting other compilers,
> but I don't think everybody would be happy with that.

me neither.  I guess this is kind of crazy, since they still aren't portable,
but my goal in writing that code was to violate only one rule: no nested 
functions.  of course, when I eventually used __label__ and "auto" I think I 
broke even those rules, making it totally gcc specific.

also, 

Perhaps you will all emit a collective groan (or simply pity me for my 
inability to learn from history), but given __LINE__,  and the usual 
macro-mashing-together tricks, I see no reason to assume that there is 
insufficient expressive power to achieve the proper semantics...  I suspect a 
failure of imagination on my part.  I'd like to take another look at this 
with a mind to reimplement all flow-of-control using goto instead of loops 
and nested functions.

I would hate to see wine scrap such a long-standing tradition as code 
portability just on account of some exception handling macros that are 
grossly inefficient wrappers anyhow... 

> > Also, not accepting code into Wine that depend on exception is one thing,
> > but what about Winelib? We can have the exception code commented out if
> > __WINESRC__ is defined, but at least lets get it in if it works, it will
> > plug a big Winelib hole.
>
> Sure, we can make the macros available for Winelib.

I hate to be the weak link in the chain here... But I'd at least like to take 
this to the drawing board once more before I throw in the towel.  I have some 
time on Thursday, so I will get back to the list on Friday with either a 
patch or a white flag.

-- 
gmt

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