Re: Optimization techniques and runtime checks

Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net>
Wed, 8 May 2019 22:50:10 +0200

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From: Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@netscape.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 22:50:10 +0200
Organization: Compilers Central
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Keywords: design, errors
Posted-Date: 09 May 2019 11:26:22 EDT

Am 08.05.2019 um 10:31 schrieb David Brown:


> And often there is no way to handle run-time errors sensibly anyway.
> You don't want your car brakes to give you a message "Your braking
> system has encountered an integer overflow. Please report this error to
> your car dealer". You want the brake software developers to be
> /absolutely/ sure that overflows can't happen - and then there is no
> point in run-time checks.


Most probably no user will ever have a chance to report above error :-]


I found SEH quite nice for handling errors. In detail with the Java
feature that the compiler can complain about unhandled exceptions.


DoDi


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