Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Big mallocs, mmap sorrows and double buffering. | Date | Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:53:55 +0200 (EET) | From | Matti Aarnio <> |
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> 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
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/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@tele.fi>
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