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From: rick@tetrauk.UUCP (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Catching signals
Keywords: Patch for Eiffel 2.2B: rescue clause ignored in package
Message-ID: <617@tetrauk.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 90 10:10:59 GMT
References: <375@eiffel.UUCP> <3463@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Reply-To: rick@tetrauk.UUCP (Rick Jones)
Organization: Tetra Ltd., Maidenhead, UK
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In article <3463@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <375@eiffel.UUCP>, jp@eiffel.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Sarkis) writes:
>> ...
>>... sprintf(rout_nm, "%s", " ");
>>... etc
>
>I suppose this is more of a comp.lang.c question than a comp.lang.eiffel
>question, but what do the calls to sprintf() here buy you that calls to
>strcpy() wouldn't?

The answer is "not a lot".  I re-worked the exception handling in _eiffel.c in
my version (and a few of the other run-time things as well).  Changing this
stuff into strcpy's was one of the more trivial fixes.  ISE have a copy of all
my changes, so I hope they'll include them in future versions.

Although I'm a devotee of Eiffel, I found the quality of the run-time C code
one of the main dissapointments of the product.  Hopefully it will improve.
It seems to show that to get a quality implementation of the Eiffel language
and environment still needs a good C programmer.  There must be a moral in this
somewhere ...

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