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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <DAGwyn@null.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] how to avoid a memset() optimization
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:47:53 +0000
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Roman V. Shaposhnick wrote:
>   C++ style exceptions are nice, but easily abused,
 > and I haven't seen any way of emulating then in pure C.

Nearly any programming facility can be abused.
Of course C++ exceptions cannot be exactly emulated
in C, because there is no possible way to tie the
handling to the type as in C++.  However, similar
facilities can be built on top of setjmp/longjmp,
and several people have done so.  Send me e-mail at
my work address and I'll be happy to send you my
implementation which I call the "Ex" package.