[Cfp-interest] draft of syntax discussion for C committee

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2014 16:25:15 -0700 (PDT) David Hough CFP wrote:
>
>You don't need exception lists any more - list one exception at a time
>even if they both go to the same place.
>The above is entirely freed from block structure... or not:
>
> {
> #pragma STDC catch_fe fe_exception1 label1
> #pragma STDC catch_fe fe_exception2 label2
>  ... normal case code
>  break;
> label1:
>  ... exception case 1 code
> label2:
>  ... exception case 2 code
> }
> ... normal case continues here

I like this.  It could be made more general by putting the label first
and follow it with a list of exceptions.  

It might be better to require the label to be within the same block as
the pragma.

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