Hi! On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 08:50:39AM +0100, Sven Karlsson wrote: > > Of course, this is already possible by using a SIGBUS handler, but the > > new call would make life easier, especially for non-C-programmers. > > I'm sorry but I cannot see why this new call would make things much better > or even easier. We cannot rewrite old applications so a new call would only > help newly written applications. And exactly that (use for new applications) was Guido's intention. > I would say that using a SIGBUS handler is the preferred solution. That is > not that hard to implement even in assembly. It's quite easy in assembler, right. But what about Gfa-Basic, for example? Quite a lot of current popular applications are programmed with it (e.g. Luna), and I guess it's a PITA (if possible at all) to use signal handlers in connection with a setjmp()/longjmp()-style functionality in Gfa-Basic. There are other programming languages where this holds true as well, e.g. certain Pascal variants, etc. Ciao Thomas -- Thomas Binder (Gryf @ IRCNet) gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de PGP-key available on request! binder@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
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