| /*=== |
| cexcept.h 2.0.1 (2008-Jul-19-Sat) |
| http://www.nicemice.net/cexcept/ |
| Adam M. Costello |
| http://www.nicemice.net/amc/ |
| |
| An interface for exception-handling in ANSI C (C89 and subsequent ISO |
| standards), developed jointly with Cosmin Truta. |
| |
| Copyright (c) 2000-2008 Adam M. Costello and Cosmin Truta. |
| This software may be modified only if its author and version |
| information is updated accurately, and may be redistributed |
| only if accompanied by this unaltered notice. Subject to those |
| restrictions, permission is granted to anyone to do anything |
| with this software. The copyright holders make no guarantees |
| regarding this software, and are not responsible for any damage |
| resulting from its use. |
| |
| The cexcept interface is not compatible with and cannot interact |
| with system exceptions (like division by zero or memory segmentation |
| violation), compiler-generated exceptions (like C++ exceptions), or |
| other exception-handling interfaces. |
| |
| When using this interface across multiple .c files, do not include |
| this header file directly. Instead, create a wrapper header file that |
| includes this header file and then invokes the define_exception_type |
| macro (see below). The .c files should then include that header file. |
| |
| The interface consists of one type, one well-known name, and six macros. |
| |
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| define_exception_type(type_name); |
| |
| This macro is used like an external declaration. It specifies |
| the type of object that gets copied from the exception thrower to |
| the exception catcher. The type_name can be any type that can be |
| assigned to, that is, a non-constant arithmetic type, struct, union, |
| or pointer. Examples: |
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| define_exception_type(int); |
| |
| enum exception { out_of_memory, bad_arguments, disk_full }; |
| define_exception_type(enum exception); |
| |
| struct exception { int code; const char *msg; }; |
| define_exception_type(struct exception); |
| |
| Because throwing an exception causes the object to be copied (not |
| just once, but twice), programmers may wish to consider size when |
| choosing the exception type. |
| |
| |
| struct exception_context; |
| |
| This type may be used after the define_exception_type() macro has |
| been invoked. A struct exception_context must be known to both |
| the thrower and the catcher. It is expected that there be one |
| context for each thread that uses exceptions. It would certainly |
| be dangerous for multiple threads to access the same context. |
| One thread can use multiple contexts, but that is likely to be |
| confusing and not typically useful. The application can allocate |
| this structure in any way it pleases--automatic, static, or dynamic. |
| The application programmer should pretend not to know the structure |
| members, which are subject to change. |
| |
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| struct exception_context *the_exception_context; |
| |
| The Try/Catch and Throw statements (described below) implicitly |
| refer to a context, using the name the_exception_context. It is |
| the application's responsibility to make sure that this name yields |
| the address of a mutable (non-constant) struct exception_context |
| wherever those statements are used. Subject to that constraint, the |
| application may declare a variable of this name anywhere it likes |
| (inside a function, in a parameter list, or externally), and may |
| use whatever storage class specifiers (static, extern, etc) or type |
| qualifiers (const, volatile, etc) it likes. Examples: |
| |
| static struct exception_context |
| * const the_exception_context = &foo; |
| |
| { struct exception_context *the_exception_context = bar; ... } |
| |
| int blah(struct exception_context *the_exception_context, ...); |
| |
| extern struct exception_context the_exception_context[1]; |
| |
| The last example illustrates a trick that avoids creating a pointer |
| object separate from the structure object. |
| |
| The name could even be a macro, for example: |
| |
| struct exception_context ec_array[numthreads]; |
| #define the_exception_context (ec_array + thread_id) |
| |
| Be aware that the_exception_context is used several times by the |
| Try/Catch/Throw macros, so it shouldn't be expensive or have side |
| effects. The expansion must be a drop-in replacement for an |
| identifier, so it's safest to put parentheses around it. |
| |
| |
| void init_exception_context(struct exception_context *ec); |
| |
| For context structures allocated statically (by an external |
| definition or using the "static" keyword), the implicit |
| initialization to all zeros is sufficient, but contexts allocated |
| by other means must be initialized using this macro before they |
| are used by a Try/Catch statement. It does no harm to initialize |
| a context more than once (by using this macro on a statically |
| allocated context, or using this macro twice on the same context), |
| but a context must not be re-initialized after it has been used by a |
| Try/Catch statement. |
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| Try statement |
| Catch (expression) statement |
| |
| The Try/Catch/Throw macros are capitalized in order to avoid |
| confusion with the C++ keywords, which have subtly different |
| semantics. |
| |
| A Try/Catch statement has a syntax similar to an if/else statement, |
| except that the parenthesized expression goes after the second |
| keyword rather than the first. As with if/else, there are two |
| clauses, each of which may be a simple statement ending with a |
| semicolon or a brace-enclosed compound statement. But whereas |
| the else clause is optional, the Catch clause is required. The |
| expression must be a modifiable lvalue (something capable of being |
| assigned to) of the same type (disregarding type qualifiers) that |
| was passed to define_exception_type(). |
| |
| If a Throw that uses the same exception context as the Try/Catch is |
| executed within the Try clause (typically within a function called |
| by the Try clause), and the exception is not caught by a nested |
| Try/Catch statement, then a copy of the exception will be assigned |
| to the expression, and control will jump to the Catch clause. If no |
| such Throw is executed, then the assignment is not performed, and |
| the Catch clause is not executed. |
| |
| The expression is not evaluated unless and until the exception is |
| caught, which is significant if it has side effects, for example: |
| |
| Try foo(); |
| Catch (p[++i].e) { ... } |
| |
| IMPORTANT: Jumping into or out of a Try clause (for example via |
| return, break, continue, goto, longjmp) is forbidden--the compiler |
| will not complain, but bad things will happen at run-time. Jumping |
| into or out of a Catch clause is okay, and so is jumping around |
| inside a Try clause. In many cases where one is tempted to return |
| from a Try clause, it will suffice to use Throw, and then return |
| from the Catch clause. Another option is to set a flag variable and |
| use goto to jump to the end of the Try clause, then check the flag |
| after the Try/Catch statement. |
| |
| IMPORTANT: The values of any non-volatile automatic variables |
| changed within the Try clause are undefined after an exception is |
| caught. Therefore, variables modified inside the Try block whose |
| values are needed later outside the Try block must either use static |
| storage or be declared with the "volatile" type qualifier. |
| |
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| Throw expression; |
| |
| A Throw statement is very much like a return statement, except that |
| the expression is required. Whereas return jumps back to the place |
| where the current function was called, Throw jumps back to the Catch |
| clause of the innermost enclosing Try clause. The expression must |
| be compatible with the type passed to define_exception_type(). The |
| exception must be caught, otherwise the program may crash. |
| |
| Slight limitation: If the expression is a comma-expression, it must |
| be enclosed in parentheses. |
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| Try statement |
| Catch_anonymous statement |
| |
| When the value of the exception is not needed, a Try/Catch statement |
| can use Catch_anonymous instead of Catch (expression). |
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| Everything below this point is for the benefit of the compiler. The |
| application programmer should pretend not to know any of it, because it |
| is subject to change. |
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| ===*/ |
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| |
| #ifndef CEXCEPT_H |
| #define CEXCEPT_H |
| |
| |
| #include <setjmp.h> |
| |
| #define define_exception_type(etype) \ |
| struct exception_context { \ |
| jmp_buf *penv; \ |
| int caught; \ |
| volatile struct { etype etmp; } v; \ |
| } |
| |
| /* etmp must be volatile because the application might use automatic */ |
| /* storage for the_exception_context, and etmp is modified between */ |
| /* the calls to setjmp() and longjmp(). A wrapper struct is used to */ |
| /* avoid warnings about a duplicate volatile qualifier in case etype */ |
| /* already includes it. */ |
| |
| #define init_exception_context(ec) ((void)((ec)->penv = 0)) |
| |
| #define Try \ |
| { \ |
| jmp_buf *exception__prev, exception__env; \ |
| exception__prev = the_exception_context->penv; \ |
| the_exception_context->penv = &exception__env; \ |
| if (setjmp(exception__env) == 0) { \ |
| do |
| |
| #define exception__catch(action) \ |
| while (the_exception_context->caught = 0, \ |
| the_exception_context->caught); \ |
| } \ |
| else { \ |
| the_exception_context->caught = 1; \ |
| } \ |
| the_exception_context->penv = exception__prev; \ |
| } \ |
| if (!the_exception_context->caught || action) { } \ |
| else |
| |
| #define Catch(e) exception__catch(((e) = the_exception_context->v.etmp, 0)) |
| #define Catch_anonymous exception__catch(0) |
| |
| /* Try ends with do, and Catch begins with while(0) and ends with */ |
| /* else, to ensure that Try/Catch syntax is similar to if/else */ |
| /* syntax. */ |
| /* */ |
| /* The 0 in while(0) is expressed as x=0,x in order to appease */ |
| /* compilers that warn about constant expressions inside while(). */ |
| /* Most compilers should still recognize that the condition is always */ |
| /* false and avoid generating code for it. */ |
| |
| #define Throw \ |
| for (;; longjmp(*the_exception_context->penv, 1)) \ |
| the_exception_context->v.etmp = |
| |
| |
| #endif /* CEXCEPT_H */ |