Re: exception from C function?
George2 wrote:
As far as I know, C function does not throw exception.
But Bjarne said in his book, section 14.8 Exception and Efficiency,
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In particular, an implementation knows that only a few standard C
library functions (such as atexit() and qsort()) can throw exceptions,
and it can take advantage of that fact to generate better code.
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What did he mean? C function could really throw exception? What
exception -- C++ exception or structured exception?
qsort() (and bsearch()) call a function through a pointer,
passed in as an argument. The function they call might throw an
exception, which will then (normally) propagate through the
library function out to user code. (Although atexit() also
takes a pointer to a function, I rather doubt that it can raise
an exception, since it doesn't call that function during its
execution.)
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