Interrupts (was Re: [Rd] X11 protocol errors ...)

[Jan de Leeuw]

You can get the macros from "C Interfaces and Implementations" by
David Hanson, Chapter 4. He has some references to other C work
by Eric Roberts and Steve Maguire on this.

On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 05:16 AM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:32:51 -0500, you wrote:
>> I'm surprised we don't get more of these sorts of things on UNIX.  Our
>> current UNIX interrupt handling approach takes an immediate LONGJMP
>> out of the signal handler no matter where the signal occurs (except
>> for two places where signals are suspended).  Any place where an
>> invariant is temporarily broken, any place where an assignment is not
>> yet complete, is a potential trouble spot.
>
> Delphi protects against these kind of errors with "try ... except ..."
> and "try ... finally ..." blocks to deal with exceptions.  The first
> one executes special code if an exception occurs, the second
> guarantees execution of cleanup code.
>
> These are implemented as a linked list of records on the stack which
> the exception handler knows how to interpret.  When a particular kind
> of exception occurs, all "finally" blocks are executed in the
> appropriate order (and the stack base pointer is moved to simulate
> exits from all active routines) until an "except" block handling the
> particular kind of exception is reached.
>
> C doesn't have these statements built in, but presumably someone has
> written macros to do the same sort of thing.  Adding them would be a
> lot of work, but would be worthwhile.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
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