On Monday 08 September 2008 12:57:00 Christoph Otto via RT wrote:

> On Tue Sep 11 03:32:51 2007, pcoch wrote:

> > Having a look through PDD03 I noticed the TODO item left by Chip:
> >
> >   =head3 Overflow
> >
> >   If too many values are provided to fit into the given target
> > registers, Parrot
> >   will throw an exception.  Note that if the final target is a P
> > register with
> >   FLAT set, then this exception can never occur.
> >
> >   XXX - FIXME - which exception?  We really could use an exception
> > subsystem.
> >   Oh, wait, that's my job.  Never mind.  --Chip
> >
> > What should we do here?  Do we already have an exception subsystem?
> > Has this been designed/implemented?

> Given the way Parrot currently regards registers, is this ticket still
> relevant?

It looks like it.  How about EXCEPTION_ERR_OVERFLOW?  It's already an 
exception type.

-- c

Reply via email to