From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 22320 invoked from network); 10 Mar 2023 17:34:59 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 10 Mar 2023 17:34:59 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAE5141581; Sat, 11 Mar 2023 03:34:57 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FB4141579 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2023 03:34:54 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id C7B7435E93A; Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:34:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 09:34:53 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: segaloco Message-ID: <20230310173453.GA9225@mcvoy.com> References: <445734B5-EFA3-4224-8ABE-81D35A4D9CEC@iitbombay.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: WVDOLTKOU3GUJ7PCHKWCBRYEHIZEXMFX X-Message-ID-Hash: WVDOLTKOU3GUJ7PCHKWCBRYEHIZEXMFX X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: coff@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [COFF] Re: [TUHS] Re: Conditions, AKA exceptions. (Was: I can't drive 55: "GOTO considered harmful" 55th anniversary) List-Id: Computer Old Farts Forum Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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