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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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kcline@optelnow.net (Kevin Cline) writes:

> That problem got a lot harder when exceptions
> were introduced into C++.  C-front was abandoned
> at that time.

It's not all that hard to translate exceptions into C using
setjmp/longjmp.  It's grossly inefficient, though.

- Bob