From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 17 08:30:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08160 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:30:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08087 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:29:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04537; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 09:29:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd004515; Sat Jan 17 09:29:52 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA23105; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 09:29:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199801171629.JAA23105@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Why no sys/setjmp.h? To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 16:29:49 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980117181344.38652@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 17, 98 06:13:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Why should that be the point? You're making assumptions despite the > fact that I've indicated that this isn't the way I'm using them. Look. C doesn't have an exception handling mechanism. Don't program as if it did, and you will end up with better code. It's silly to act as if, just because you can unwind your stack, that you should program as if you expect to need to do so. > You mentioned the names. You didn't (and IMO can't) indicate how > they'd solve the problem I described. Describe the problem in more detail. I'll give you a more detailed answer. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.