[Mono-list] Exceptions and error codes.

[Fergus Henderson]

On 21-Mar-2003, Richard Torkar <richard.torkar@htu.se> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 04:10, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > Note that the exception handling scheme used on Windows requires some
> > overhead for "try" statements even in the case when no exception is thrown.
> 
> What? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ How can that be the case?
> 
> If the catch does not fire then the try should not be evaluated, right?
> This is something I've missed completely.

The Win32 "structured exception handling" mechanism that Windows uses
keeps a linked list of active exception handlers.  When entering a
"try" statement, the code generated by the compiler needs to insert
a new handler in the list, and to fill in a variety of fields that
record information about the handler.  When exiting a "try" statement,
the generated code needs to remove the handler from the list.

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