From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to exit out of a function ? what is try-catch-throw in terms of Program Counter Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:33:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1192913158.922454.108100@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193157780 8259 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2007 16:43:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:43:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 23 18:43:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IkMqD-0008F8-Qg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:42:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkMq5-00042p-Sm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:42:45 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:33:22 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6m9F4y4COhzlwsTinJqYLE3VHbQ= Original-Lines: 9 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-EuY/hY3E9+mtU1sTLkHs+KfQbLZaT4ALtTa9pTq9eseUVZOi2TIP/QfJDLQD14mNNUi3cbG/NmaCe5m!4vl3J0GXrBQuEtxiCkBZtewjAxJlrxkVfPC3lrByF8afu2pT5XtF8E7pMBIyeHYIgoqK/XwOqWB+!fTBw+TTJE2SA60hE8g== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.36 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153230 comp.lang.c:828347 comp.lang.c++:954485 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48718 Archived-At: > NOTE: I am really afraid of try-catch-throw. I have never been > able to understand it since it does not exist in C and I can't > really visualize the construct in terms of C. That is what my Actually, these constructs pretty much exist in C as well: `catch' is called `setjmp', and `throw' is called `longjmp'. Stefan