Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:24:19 -0800 From: Arun Sharma <adsharma@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com> To: dillon@earth.backplane.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting memory allocators for library functions. Message-ID: <200102270624.WAA17949@c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com> In-Reply-To: <200102261755.f1QHtvr34064@earth.backplane.com> References: <200102260529.f1Q5T8413011@curve.dellroad.org> <200102261755.f1QHtvr34064@earth.backplane.com>
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On 26 Feb 2001 18:56:18 +0100, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> 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 :) -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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