From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 5:58:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from syncopation-03.iinet.net.au (syncopation-03.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43FD637B718 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2001 05:58:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: (qmail 19132 invoked by uid 666); 27 Feb 2001 14:10:09 -0000 Received: from i079-084.nv.iinet.net.au (HELO elischer.org) (203.59.79.84) by mail.m.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 27 Feb 2001 14:10:09 -0000 Message-ID: <3A9BAAF9.C75B39BF@elischer.org> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 05:26:17 -0800 From: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org Cc: dillon@earth.backplane.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. References: <200102260529.f1Q5T8413011@curve.dellroad.org> <200102261755.f1QHtvr34064@earth.backplane.com> <200102270624.WAA17949@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Arun Sharma wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2001 18:56:18 +0100, Matt Dillon wrote: > > Ha. Right. Go through any piece of significant code and just see how > > much goes flying out the window because the code wants to simply assume > > things work. Then try coding conditionals all the way through to fix > > it... and don't forget you need to propogate the error condition back > > up the procedure chain too so the original caller knows why it failed. > > So, it all comes down to reimplementing the UNIX kernel in a language > that supports exceptions, just like Linus suggested :) I've often considered writing a language SPECIFICALLY for writing the kernel. (no other uses) I mean it basically uses the same mechaninsims over and over and over again... linked lists, hash tables, nested loops, etc.etc. I'd like a language that lets me define the module I'm writing, define the way it should behave, and let the boring code be taken care of by itelf :-) > > -Arun > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message