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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: The advantages of FREQUENCY
Message-ID: <2715@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 88 14:36:41 GMT
References: <3783@hall.cray.com> <28200095@ccvaxa>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT.
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In article <28200095@ccvaxa> aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
|Well, I would like to remove the really infrequent cases completely
|out of the flow of the program - at the very least to another page,
|[Lots of code like:]
|	if( cond )
|		panic("cond");

This sounds good, but for every such rule there is an exception.  In this
case, if "cond" is "page handling failure", I do *not* want to go to another
page.
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