exceptions4c • An exception handling framework for C

Error Handling

This library provides you with a small set of keywords: try, catch, finally, throw...

Signal Handling

Signals such as SIGHUP, SIGFPE or SIGSEGV can be handled in an exceptional way.

Resource Handling

Other keywords allow you to express the Dispose Pattern in your code: using, with... use.

Simple

The API is intuitive to any developer with experience on languages with native exceptions.

Portable

It has no external dependencies, only standard ANSI C functions are needed.

Multithreading

You may also enable the thread-safe version of the library which relies on pthreads.

#include "e4c.h"

int foobar(){
  int * pointer = NULL;
  try{
    int oops = *pointer;
  }catch(BadPointerException){
    printf("No problem!\n");
  }
}

Bring the power of exceptions to your C applications with this tiny, portable library.

License

This is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

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