pthread_cleanup_push & pthread_cleanup_pop usage

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 07 October 2008 11:28:33 pm John Hein wrote:
> In June pthread_cleanup_push & pthread_cleanup_pop were changed to macros
> that look like so...
> 
> +#define        pthread_cleanup_push(cleanup_routine, cleanup_arg)              
\
> +               {                                                               
\
> +                       struct _pthread_cleanup_info __cleanup_info__;          
\
> +                       __pthread_cleanup_push_imp(cleanup_routine, 
cleanup_arg,\
> +                               &__cleanup_info__);                             
\
> +                       {
> +
> +#define        pthread_cleanup_pop(execute)                                    
\
> +                       }                                                       
\
> +                       __pthread_cleanup_pop_imp(execute);                     
\
> +               }
> +
> 
> 
> This breaks code where the pop is done in an inner block level.
> 
> simplified example:
> 
>     pthread_cleanup_push(docleanup, &foo);
>     try
>     {   
>         dostuff();
>     }
>     catch (...)
>     {   
>         pthread_cleanup_pop(1);
>         throw;
>     }
>     pthread_cleanup_pop(1);
> 
> Does anyone have a recommended fix?

Don't Do That (tm).  The spec explicitly states that they can be defined as 
macros and that code using it needs to put them in the same block.

-- 
John Baldwin