Re: Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends
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Msg-id 493CCA24.1080607@gmx.net
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In response to Re: Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> The most serious problem AFAIK is that we use setjmp/longjmp, which I 
> understand does not play at all nicely with C++ exceptions.

Considering the complexity of the code and how it at times stretches the 
C standard to the point of cheating, I think anyone's three-item list of 
major problems is going to be much too short.


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