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Re: When do cleanups happen?
- From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- To: ac131313 at cygnus dot com
- Cc: msnyder at redhat dot com, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, drow at mvista dot com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:27:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: When do cleanups happen?
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 19:36:36 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
> >
> > Hmm! Now I am confused.
> >
> > What do others think? Are cleanups cleaned-up only on error?
> > Or always when a command finishes? I know that I have found
> > that if I make a cleanup that closes a file, then I cannot close
> > that file myself else it will wind up being closed twice.
>
> Two styles:
Andrew, if Michael got confused by this, our docs needs work. So I
suggest to add the nice explanations below to gdbint.texinfo, as the
first step towards a remedy. There's a section about cleanups there
where these explanations will fit nicely.
> oc = make_cleanup (close, fd); // yes ok that is bad
>
> ....blah blah
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> do_cleanups (oc);
>
> which always does the close using the cleanup. This is kind of like a
> TRY ... FINALLY .. END construct;
>
> oc = make_cleanup (close, fd); // ...
> ... blah blah
> discard_cleanups (oc); //* is that the right f name?
> ... blah blah
> close (fd);
>
> which discards the cleanups so you're free to do the close. This is
> kind of a TRY ... EXCEPT ... END.
>
> And then there is the truth:
>
> catch_exceptions() / catch_errors() does a cleanup.
>
> the main command loop has a do_cleanup() call.
>
> enjoy,
> Andrew
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