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From: A_HINDS%HVRFORD.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: task exceptions
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Date: 22 Sep 89 16:46:24 GMT
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I have a proposal, albeit a late one, for 1.4.  I think one of the biggest
possible criticism of the Amiga is its lack of error handling facilities
for task exceptions.

Now, wouldn't it be possible, say, for each task when running, to store
the address of an exception handler to be used for ALL gurus, not just
CPU exceptions, so that cleanup and recovery could be possible?
Couldn't this just be something all developpers do when running their
programs, just like opening ExecBase, etc. is something we all do
automatically?

Does 1.4 address this problem?  Just what happened to the guru, anyway?
Will the machine still go down when somebody frees memory twice?

Alexander Hinds
A_HINDS@HVRFORD