On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Jason Cipriani
<jason.cipriani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does GCC have anything similar to the MS and Borland compiler's __try
> and __finally keywords? When using GCC I often find that I have code
> like this (a moderately complex, and highly contrived, example):
Heh, well, the example wasn't really that complex. I had typed a
weirder one and then simplified it but left this comment in.
>
> ====
>
> void *data1 = NULL, *data2 = NULL, *data3 = NULL;
>
> try {
>
> if (!(data1 = malloc(1000)))
> throw Something();
> if (!(data2 = malloc(1000)))
> throw Something();
> if (!(data3 = malloc(1000)))
> throw Something();
>
> } catch (...) {
>
> // cleanup code
> free(data3);
> free(data2);
> free(data1);
> throw;
>
> }
>
> // the same cleanup code
> free(data3);
> free(data2);
> free(data1);
>
> ===
>
> Where I am duplicating cleanup code for normal returns and exception
> handling, but what I really want to do is something like this:
>
> ===
>
> void *data1 = NULL, *data2 = NULL, *data3 = NULL;
>
> __try {
>
> if (!(data1 = malloc(1000)))
> throw Something();
> if (!(data2 = malloc(1000)))
> throw Something();
> if (!(data3 = malloc(1000)))
> throw Something();
>
> // do stuff
>
> } __finally {
>
> // cleanup code
> free(data3);
> free(data2);
> free(data1);
>
> }
>
> ===
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
