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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: segaloco <segaloco@protonmail.com>
Cc: coff@tuhs.org
Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:34:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230310173453.GA9225@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <zQ8vnI_R8uVwIaiBNo8FIH-OWMoES4VHfnxnnCNISkbFkJcpenXi4H75Z7zFStfclQAue8mixqjL6rWIMBAYRi3bbeGdv0SQUHA9NbQAb44=@protonmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 05:28:44PM +0000, segaloco via COFF wrote:
> On the flip side something I've always thought would be powerful, at least in development, is a way to tell any and all procedures being called to ignore their exception/condition handling and hard-crash. Of course you don't want to take that kind of hammer to a production situation, but a way to override any and all handling so that real errors become apparent would be incredibly nice.

#include <assert.h>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-10 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-10 17:11 Bakul Shah
2023-03-10 17:28 ` segaloco via COFF
2023-03-10 17:34   ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-03-10 17:35   ` Bakul Shah
2023-03-10 17:42     ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-11 11:28       ` [COFF] Conditions, AKA exceptions Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-12  4:23         ` [COFF] " Theodore Ts'o
2023-03-12 10:44           ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-12 16:46             ` Paul Winalski
2023-03-12 16:53               ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-10 17:43     ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) segaloco via COFF
2023-03-10 18:03     ` Dan Cross
2023-03-10 18:57       ` Bakul Shah
2023-03-10 19:57         ` Marshall Conover
2023-03-13 16:47           ` [COFF] Conditions, AKA exceptions Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-13 17:10             ` [COFF] " Paul Winalski
2023-03-13 21:12               ` Dave Horsfall
2023-03-10 17:47   ` [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) Bakul Shah
     [not found] <20230310121550.9A80718C080@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
     [not found] ` <20230310131512.891A8212A8@orac.inputplus.co.uk>
2023-03-10 14:20   ` Larry Stewart
2023-03-10 18:09     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-03-10 17:34   ` Warner Losh

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