The Old New Thing

When you transfer control across stack frames, all the frames in between need to be in on the joke

September 10, 2012 Sep 10, 2012 09/10/12

Raymond Chen

Chris Hill suggests discussing the use of structured exception handling as it relates to the window manager, and specifically the implications for applications which raise exceptions from a callback. If you plan on raising an exception and handling it in a function higher up the stack, all the stack frames in between need to be be in on ...