On 23 Jan 2002, Jason E. Stewart wrote:

> > Yours is the very first Perl XS extension I've seen which plays with
> > $@ and die to propagate errors back to the Perl caller (an education
> > in itself - thanks!)  Had you ever considered an alternate means of
> > error handling?
> 
> I must acknowledge a tutorial from Matt Seargent that first showed how
> to do that, I just liked it and used it.

Is that tutorial publically available?  I'd love to see it.

> > Probably I'm just frustrated from my repeated efforts to track down
> > misbehavior under AIX.  Something is going very wrong with exception
> > handling in C++, and I'm unable to convince any of the available
> > debuggers to properly trace execution.  So, pay no attention to my
> > ravings.. <g>.
> 
> I wish I could help more, but without access to an AIX box, I'm afraid
> I can't do much. If you could get me some kind of account, I might be
> able to help. I don't know if IBM is interested in donating some
> hardware to Apache or SourceForge, but if they did, I'm sure that it
> would help.

Unfortunately, I'm too low on the totem pole to influence this sort of
thing.  Non-IBM personnel are not permitted on the internal network but
perhaps I can find a friendly soul in the outside world with an AIX
platform and spare cycles.  Let me work on it..


Steve

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