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Mino

Joined: 14 Jan 2018
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Mino

Hello,
I would like to know if it was possible to design an exception system in FASM.
For example, something like that:

Code:

void foo() {
    try {
        throw 65;
    } catch(int ex) {

    }
}

How could this be transcribed into FASM? One could, I guess, write something that looks like this:

Code:

foo:
    push ebp
    mov ebp, esp
    mov dword eax, 65
foo_catch:
    ; eax contains the thrown

But that doesn't seem to me very "solid" as a model, nor even adapted to potential more consequent exceptions, such as stack overflow, bad memory access, ...
Do you have any ideas Smile

?
Thank you!

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19 Jun 2018, 16:12

revolution
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revolution

You have to ask to OS to forward exceptions to your code. So the code will be OS dependant.

19 Jun 2018, 16:26

Mino

Joined: 14 Jan 2018
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Mino

I'm afraid I don't quite understand what you mean by that.
Also, here's a little test I did in C++ to see how this language handled exceptions, and unless I'm wrong, there's no[real] OS dependency, here's :

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20 Jun 2018, 09:33

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revolution

All those calls to external functions are the C-library OS interface routines.

You won't be able to get any exceptions unless you ask the OS to pass them to your code. All exceptions trap into the kernel. This is done by the CPU and there is no way to alter that from user code. So you have to know which OS you are using and from there how to interface with the OS to get the exceptions.

20 Jun 2018, 09:48

Mino

Joined: 14 Jan 2018
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Mino

Ha, okay, thanks, I understand better. So I'll see what I can do.
Thank you Wink

20 Jun 2018, 10:18

Furs

Joined: 04 Mar 2016
Posts: 1768

Furs

At your skill level, you should definitely not bother with exceptions. They're really horrendous and a pain to handle, especially on x64 Windows, but even the 32-bit SEH is somewhat of a pain in the arse.

I don't know about other OSes.

20 Jun 2018, 15:23

JohnFound

Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 3499
Location: Bulgaria

JohnFound

Especially for Windows, you can see the seh.fpr example from Fresh IDE package. The FreshLib library contains macros that make the usage of SEH pretty easy. The definitions of the macros are in the file: freshlib/macro/Win32/_exceptions.inc. You can see that the code behind is not so complex. Smile

20 Jun 2018, 15:42

Mino

Joined: 14 Jan 2018
Posts: 163

Mino

That's exactly what I was thinking :p . Exceptions, especially at my level, isn't easy.

20 Jun 2018, 15:54

DimonSoft

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Location: Belarus

DimonSoft

They’re difficult at all levels. Exceptions are not only about handling. They’re about proper design and about having your data structures ready for an exception to occur literally in every line of your code.

20 Jun 2018, 16:13

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