[cfe-users] A question regarding formatting of function try-block

[Owen Pan via cfe-users]

I replied.

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From: Owen Pan <owenpiano at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 9:38 PM
Subject: Fwd: [cfe-users] A question regarding formatting of function
try-block
To: <jsvanbethlehem at gmail.com>, <cfe-users at lists.llvm.org>


Hi Jakob,

I have filed a bug report and assigned it to myself. See
https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39067.

There is no combination of existing options can work around this problem.
Please stay tuned...

Thanks,
Owen


On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 2:30 PM David Blaikie via cfe-users <
cfe-users at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Not sure who's doing most of the work on clang-format these days - Sam,
> maybe you know?
>
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 2:07 AM Jakob van Bethlehem via cfe-users <
> cfe-users at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Recently we introduced clang-format into our company, for formatting
>> c++-code. After some fine-tuning of the settings, we're extremely happy
>> with it. Today I came across a bit of code that uses a function try-block -
>> not a very-often use feature of C++, but sometimes usefuly, however, I
>> don't really like what clang-format is doing, and I'm having trouble
>> figuring out how to tell clang-format what to do.
>>
>> So, here is the header of the function that has the problem:
>>
>> HlPropertiesParser::HlPropertiesParserError
>> HlPropertiesParser::readPropertiesDataFromFile(
>>     const std::wstring& filename,
>>     std::vector<HullLinePropertyRule>& hlPropertyRules,
>>     std::wstring& errorMsg)
>> try
>> {
>>   /// code
>>
>> Of course down below will be the closing brace of the function, and a
>> number of catch-clauses. When I now run clang-format on it, it will move
>> the 'try' after the closing bracket like so:
>>
>> HlPropertiesParser::HlPropertiesParserError
>> HlPropertiesParser::readPropertiesDataFromFile(
>>     const std::wstring& filename,
>>     std::vector<HullLinePropertyRule>& hlPropertyRules,
>>     std::wstring& errorMsg) try
>> {
>>
>> It looks as if clang-format considers this like a const- or noexcept
>> specifier. However, I would really like to tell clang-format to put the
>> 'try' on the next line, preferably even always at the start of the line. Is
>> there a style option that will let be achieve this?
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Jakob van Bethlehem
>>
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