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From: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: exception handling in C
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Date: 9 Mar 90 19:02:17 GMT
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Reply-To: libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes)
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Check out the paper "An Exception Handler for C" by Eric Allman and
David Been, Summer 1985 USENIX, Portland, OR.  It describes an elegant
system for handling exceptions.  The authors compare it with exception
handling philosophy in other languages including Ada, Mesa, Clu and PL/I.

Has anyone ever used it?  One of these days I'm going to get around to
trying it out.

Don Libes          libes@cme.nist.gov      ...!uunet!cme-durer!libes