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Re: PATCH:throwing exceptions with no memory

To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br>
Subject: Re: PATCH:throwing exceptions with no memory
From: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at acm dot org>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 15:25:52 +0000
CC: Martin von Loewis <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>, egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Bristol University
References: <363457E8.6617@acm.org> <199810262249.XAA00455@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> <36358E4E.664E@acm.org> <ork91mavn1.fsf@araguaia.dcc.unicamp.br>

Alexandre Oliva wrote:
 > following program would deadlock (rather than __terminate()).
> 
> You might use the lock just to guard a boolean value that flags
> whether the static location is busy or not.  If a thread finds that it
> needs to use the static location and it is busy already, it calls
> terminate.
This is what the patch does :-)

nathan
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References:
- PATCH:throwing exceptions with no memory
  - From: Nathan Sidwell
- Re: PATCH:throwing exceptions with no memory
  - From: Martin von Loewis
- Re: PATCH:throwing exceptions with no memory
  - From: Nathan Sidwell
- Re: PATCH:throwing exceptions with no memory
  - From: Alexandre Oliva

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