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Re: exception handling poll


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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