Should C functions automatically be nothrow?
Brad Roberts
braddr at puremagic.com
Mon Feb 6 18:10:29 PST 2012
The classic example of when a c function can throw is via callbacks. For
example, passing a D function to the c runtime qsort. If that function
throws, calling qsort with it can throw. While libc doesn't have a lot of
that sort of function, the realm of C code in general is bigger.
That argues for appropriately labeling them since the entire set can't be
just assumed to be nothrow. Some of the core.* files have already been
hit, I believe.
Later,
Brad
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Can C functions throw? I don't know of any way that a C function could throw.
> Is it possible if you have a C function which calls a D function or something
> like that? I don't know. I wouldn't really expect the C function to be able to
> handle the D exception, in which case, it wouldn't end up throwing the
> exception to whatever code calls it.
>
> Assuming that C functions can't throw, is there any reason _not_ to have the
> compiler automatically treat C functions as nothrow?
>
> If we can't treat C funtions in general as nothrow (for whatever reason that
> may be), is there a reason why we can't explicitly mark the various C bindings
> in druntime as nothrow at the very least?
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
>
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