Re: [fpc-devel] Non-local goto’s and nested exits

[Jonas Maebe]

On 04 Oct 2010, at 12:17, Adriaan van Os wrote:

> I wonder if there is anything special that hinders the  
> implementation of non-local goto’s and nested exits in macpas mode.

Afaik it's mainly a matter of no one caring enough about it to  
implement it. Florian did recently add support for non-local goto's in  
ISO mode, but it uses setjmp/longjmp directly and therefore probably  
doesn't play nice with automated types.

> I am asking because emulation through exception-handling does seem  
> to work (which implies that the code to unwind the stack is there).

Indeed.


Jonas