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Re: exception handling poll
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: exception handling poll
- From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand at inf dot utfsm dot cl>
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 10:45:56 -0300
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> said:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 10:28:40AM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > BTW, as has been said several times before: You _can't_ ever trow through C
> > code, unless that C code is _very_ *very* carefully written...
> Not exactly. What you mean is that you can't throw through arbitrary
> C code and expect to be able to continue on as if nothing happened, and
> eventually call back down into the same library.
Thats what I said: Unless the C is carefully written, if you throw through
it, things break. So, it is completely useless to pretend you're doing the
"right thing" when you aren't.
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