Re: Writing triggers in C++

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jacob Rief <jacob(dot)rief(at)gmx(dot)at>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Writing triggers in C++
Date: 2007-02-14 16:38:22
Message-ID: 1171471102.5454.297.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 13:19 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Probably stack allocation doesn't matter much, as I think that would be
> unwinded by the longjmp call. I don't know a lot about C++, but if
> there are allocations in the data area then those would probably not be
> freed. But it makes me wonder -- is longjmp very compatible with C++
> exceptions at all?

"C-style stack unwinding (using setjmp and longjmp from <csetjmp>) is
incompatible with exception-handling and is best avoided." (Stroustrup,
p. 433).

Which presumably means that in practice, the interaction between these
features is implementation-defined.

-Neil

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