[M3devel] Alpha/OSF exception handling

[Tony Hosking]

That is a huge shame.  Why did you remove it?  It used to be there and functional.

On 18 Jul 2010, at 09:35, Jay K wrote:

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> Modula-3 for ALPHA_OSF historically had the best exception handling implementation.
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> With Solaris/sparc32 second best.
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> And then everything else equally bad.
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> The current Alpha/osf is now in the "equally bad" category.
> Because I'm lazy.
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> It might be worth restoring its former glory.
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> Maybe a small project for someone?
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> The code is still in there. I just tweaked the m3makefiles to avoid trying it.
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> jbook2:runtime jay$ pwd
> /dev2/cm3/m3-libs/m3core/src/runtime
> jbook2:runtime jay$ find ALPHA_OSF
> ALPHA_OSF/m3makefile-old
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> Renaming that m3makefile.
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> Fiddling with this:
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> book2:runtime jay$ grep STACK *
> m3makefile:readonly HAS_STACK_WALKER = {
> m3makefile:if defined("M3_USE_STACK_WALKER")
> m3makefile:  if M3_USE_STACK_WALKER and HAS_STACK_WALKER contains TARGET
> m3makefile:    if HAS_STACK_WALKER{TARGET}
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> and this:
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> jbook2:src jay$ pwd
> /dev2/cm3/m3-sys/m3middle/src
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> book2:src jay$ grep -i _stack *m3
> Target.m3:    Has_stack_walker          := FALSE;
> Target.m3:                 Has_stack_walker := TRUE;
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>  - Jay
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