CCExceptions, exception handling for the C language ¶

Overview ¶

This package installs a C11 language library; it implements an interface to non–local exits, which is somewhat similar to exceptions handling. The library targets posix systems.

This project is still in the development phase; the project is hosted at GitHub.

Introduction ¶

Non–local exits are a way to transfer execution from one point to another in a program; they are implemented by the standard C library through the setjmp() and longjmp() functions. CCExceptions uses the posix variants sigsetjmp() and siglongjmp().

The main usage pattern for the library’s facilities is the following:

cce_location_t  L[1];

if (cce_location(L)) {
  /* handle the exception here */
  cce_run_clean_handlers_final(L);
} else {
  /* do something useful here */
  cce_run_body_handlers(L);
}

License ¶

CCExceptions is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the gnu Lesser General Public License, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Reporting errors and vulnerabilities ¶

Error and vulnerability reports are appreciated, all the vulnerability reports are public; register them using the Issue Tracker at the project’s GitHub site. For contributions and patches please use the Pull Requests feature at the project’s GitHub site.

Contributions ¶

Contributions are welcome. For contributions and patches please use the Pull Requests feature at the project’s GitHub site. Code must come in standard C11 language; there are no strict coding conventions. The hierarchy of built–in condition objects can be augmented following the same coding practices already used in the library