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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: question regarding catch/throw
Keywords: catch throw setjump longjump
Message-ID: <1023@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 91 16:27:39 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.182820.17579@cuff.uucp>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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boag@cuff.uucp (Scott Boag) writes:
>
>We are about to implement a generalized error handling scheme that uses 
>catch/throw (i.e. setjump/longjump).  I am a bit worried about the 
>behavior of these functions in the MS Windows environment.  Has anyone 
>had prior experience with using these?  Thanks in advance.
>

I use the Catch() and Throw() functions in a Windows game that I'm about
to release.  They work great, as long as you remember, of course, that
you can't Throw() into a deeper stack level than where you're at.  In other
words, you can always Throw() to WinMain(), but if you're in WinMain(), you
can't Throw() to any other function.
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