From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2003-06-20T02:07:19+09:00
Subject: Re: rb_protect and longjmp

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:17:53AM +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> Looking for some insight about rb_protect and the longjmp calls.
> 
> Is rb_protect supposed to always return back to the caller?  I'm
> wrapping calls in rb_protect wherever I can in my C++ application, but
> it seems that rb_protect doesn't always return.

When rb_protect "doesn't return" what does happen?  Does your code get
jumped over or does the program hang or does it crash?

I know that if you throw a C++ exception from inside an rb_protect call,
then on some platforms (g++ under Linux is one), std::terminate() will
be called.

Paul