From d756b28611396a8b2ac2c2df05a88babf0a585b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William S Fulton <wsf@fultondesigns.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:32:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Correct %exception documentation so no memory is leaked - bug
 #2903761

git-svn-id: https://swig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/swig/trunk@11759 626c5289-ae23-0410-ae9c-e8d60b6d4f22
---
 Doc/Manual/Customization.html | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Doc/Manual/Customization.html b/Doc/Manual/Customization.html
index ec73e5460..82e1c411f 100644
--- a/Doc/Manual/Customization.html
+++ b/Doc/Manual/Customization.html
@@ -53,6 +53,21 @@ The <tt>%exception</tt> directive allows you to define a general purpose excepti
 handler. For example, you can specify the following:
 </p>
 
+<div class="code"><pre>
+%exception {
+    try {
+        $action
+    }
+    catch (RangeError) {
+        ... handle error ...
+    }
+}
+</pre></div>
+
+<p>
+How the exception is handled depends on the target language, for example, Python:
+</p>
+
 <div class="code"><pre>
 %exception {
     try {
@@ -60,7 +75,7 @@ handler. For example, you can specify the following:
     }
     catch (RangeError) {
         PyErr_SetString(PyExc_IndexError,"index out-of-bounds");
-        return NULL;
+        SWIG_fail;
     }
 }
 </pre></div>