t...@gmplib.org (Torbjörn Granlund) writes:
> The error handler function would then use the knowledge of the
> allocation functions to clean up the memory state, and probably longjump
> to to deallocate stack.
We've discussed such hacks for memory allocation before (but now I can't
find the relev
t...@gmplib.org (Torbjörn Granlund) writes:
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I agree that these global pointers to functions have a number
of problems.
I was going to say that for some situations, it would be better
to have these choices made and compile/link time rather than run time.
But I see from what you say that there are more complex scenarios
to consider...oh wel
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I'd like to think of error handling also in a C perspective, and
consider a few more problems at the same time.
Which sources of exceptions do we have currently?
1 We divide by 0 to generate a SIGFPE. I think we do that for division
by zero as well as some other