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Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp)

From "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp)
Date 2015-10-15 12:32 +0200
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On 14.10.2015 09:36, supercat@casperkitty.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 6:16:15 PM UTC-5, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
>> My understanding is that a multi-threaded program has access to the same
>> memory, so each thread has to have its state stored in the same global
>> variable.  And that's done using the thread id?
>
> Many single-processsor multi-threaded systems will allow user code to
> associate a pointer value with each thread, and will on every task-switch
> load a certain global variable with the pointer associated the current
> thread.  Typically this will identify a user-defined structure type which
> may then be used to hold any number of thread-specific values.
>
> Exception handling mechanisms could use setjmp, store the result into a
> field of the structure identified by the aforementioned pointer, and then
> call the code that might need to throw.  If it does throw, it would use
> the aforementioned global to find the jmp_buff o which it could transfer
> control.

Yep.  If exceptions are used then they will have to support both
compiles with and without threads, and because of that I think the
best thing is to find some simple library that handles both instead
of rolling my own.

-Morten

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Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 04:33 +0200
  Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-13 15:54 +1300
    Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 05:07 +0200
  Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-10-13 14:07 +0100
    Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 16:17 +0200
    Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-13 08:26 -0700
      Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 18:14 +0200
        Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-14 07:46 +1300
          Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 22:06 +0200
            Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-14 10:32 +1300
              Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 23:47 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-14 11:02 +1300
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-10-14 18:32 +0000
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 12:28 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-16 07:47 +1300
            Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-10-13 21:39 +0000
              Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 23:49 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-13 15:03 -0700
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 01:16 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-13 16:46 -0700
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 02:13 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-13 19:10 -0700
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 04:27 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-14 16:05 +1300
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 05:18 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-14 16:31 +1300
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-14 05:44 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-10-15 12:06 +0000
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 16:08 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-10-14 00:36 -0700
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 12:32 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-14 11:06 +1300
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-10-14 00:10 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-13 19:08 -0400
              Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-10-14 11:37 +0000
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-15 12:34 +0200
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-16 07:56 +1300
                Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) "Morten W. Petersen" <morphex@gmail.com> - 2015-10-16 05:45 +0200
            Re: Error handling in a parser (return value or setjmp) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-10-13 18:53 -0400

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