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From: williams@cs.umass.edu
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Subject: Exception handling in C?
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Date: 3 Jun 90 18:31:19 GMT
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I would like to hear of peoples experiences using exception handling
in C - both pro and con.  Don't most people find that returning error
status codes becomes very hard to handle (no pun intended) in larger
software systems?

There was a paper about 7 or so years ago in an ACM publication discussing
this and providing macros to implement it in C.  Can anyone provide
the reference (or even better a copy of the article!) or other, more
recent ones?  Have any of the many C books on the market discussed
exception handling in C?

Leo  c/o  williams@cs.umass.edu  leo@aai.com  uunet!aai!leo