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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Booting on slow CPUs
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In-Reply-To: <4aca44cdd7ef190533dfd6e46c7259fd@plan9.bell-labs.com>; from Russ Cox on Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:55:12PM -0500
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 09:26:43 +0200
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:55:12PM -0500, Russ Cox wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I thought you'd looked at waserror() before
> and had just missed this one case.  It's not a normal
> function.  It's used to implement exceptions via
> a setjmp/longjmp-equivalent and a stack of jmpbufs.  
> 
It's a reasonable assumption, I have to confess.  It's a difficult bad
habit to break, this shooting from the hip.  I forget that in this
forum I'm in the lower echelons, unlike my daily surroundings :-)

> See http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/man/10/error.html.
> 
Thank you, I hope that will help.

++L