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From: duncanb@ibmpcug.co.uk (D G Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,connect.audit
Subject: Re: exception handling in C
Message-ID: <1990Mar10.085409.8995@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 10 Mar 90 08:54:09 GMT
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
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There was a paper about exception handling in C in Software Practice and
Experience back about 1981 (sorry, I dont have the exact reference on me).
That handled exceptions with code like:

exception FILE_ERROR;
...
BEGIN
   f = fopen("afile", "r");
   if (f == NULL) exc_raise(FILE_ERROR);
   ... normal case code.
EXCEPTION
   WHEN(FILE_ERROR)
       ... handle file error
   WHEN(OTHERS)
       ... handle other errors.
       exc_reraise();	/* Pass exception out to next level */
END

I have been using this code (with a few minor changes of my own)
for some time. It is neat and quite clean.

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Duncan Booth, RCP Ltd.                    Didcot, Oxon, UK
duncanb@ibmpcug.co.uk                     Bix: jrichards