Messages in this thread | | | From | (Andreas Schwab) | Subject | Re: Big mallocs, mmap sorrows and double buffering. | Date | 19 Feb 1997 17:12:37 +0100 |
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Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@tele.fi> writes:
|>> Actually, there is an msync. But the second problem is tougher, especially |>> if later we want to support mmap for something other than disk files, that |>> can return errors under normal conditions. Do we need structured exception |>> handling for user code?
|> Exception handling ? Yes! In fact the DEC UNIX supports some of it |> in their C-compiler -- via some C extensions, plus exception tables. |> Those with access to such a machine, see: |> man 3 exception_intro |> man 4 excpt |> man 4 pdsc
The GCC people are working on this as well. -- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
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