_mp_alloc vs ALLOC

[Marc Glisse]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:

> Pedro Gimeno <p.gimeno at formauri.es> writes:
>
>  My recollection is that gmp_errno was not thread-safe, not just
>  obsolete, and that that was a reason for getting rid of it.

If the main issue with gmp_errno is thread-safety, it should just become 
thread-local, like the regular errno. Doing the right configuration magic 
may be some work, but other projects must have done it before.

> Making some C error handling mechanism would be great, though.  I am not
> sure that's easy, though.  "For error handling, use C++"?

One great thing about C++ exceptions is how little they cost when no 
exception is thrown.

-- 
Marc Glisse