Efficient and Portable Implementation of Java-style Exception Handling in C
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- Umatani Seiji
- Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
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- Shobayashi Hirokazu
- NTT West Co., Ltd.
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- Yasugi Masahiro
- Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
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- Yuasa Taiichi
- Department of Communications and Computer Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
Abstract
An important issue in implementing high-level programming languages for use by translators into C is how to support high-level language features not available in C. Java's exception handling is one such feature, and translating it into portable C, which only uses C-style control structures, involves some challenges. Previous studies have proposed ways of translating the Java-style try-catch construct into C. In this paper, we propose a new scheme for implementing it in an efficient and portable manner. We use our parallel language OPA, which is an extended Java language, and its translator. In our scheme, we do not use troublesome setjmp/longjmp routines for non-local jumps. Instead, we check the occurrences of exceptions using functions' return values. Java also has the try-finally construct, mainly used for cleaning up, which cannot be translated directly into C-style control structures. To implement it, we developed a new scheme with integer values corresponding to continuation targets. Compared with other techniques, ours has advantages in both the runtime overhead and the generated code size. For these two features, using some benchmark programs, we measured the performance of our scheme and compared it with those of some other schemes.
Journal
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- Information and Media Technologies
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Information and Media Technologies 1 (2), 809-818, 2006
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390282680241922432
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- NII Article ID
- 130000058354
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- ISSN
- 18810896
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
- CiNii Articles
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- Abstract License Flag
- Disallowed