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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] same functions everywhere
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Date: Thu,  1 May 2003 09:55:22 -0400
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> Actally, no.  Several people (including me) have implemented
> general, low-overhead exception-handling systems in C.  It
> would be possible to make them more convenient with support
> in the language itself, but one can go a long way just by
> exploiting setjmp/longjmp via better packaging.

You're preaching to the choir.  Look at the Plan 9 kernel.