Re: Big mallocs, mmap sorrows and double buffering.

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@tele.fi)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:53:55 +0200 (EET)


> Actually, there is an msync. But the second problem is tougher, especially
> if later we want to support mmap for something other than disk files, that
> can return errors under normal conditions. Do we need structured exception
> handling for user code?

Exception handling ? Yes! In fact the DEC UNIX supports some of it
in their C-compiler -- via some C extensions, plus exception tables.
Those with access to such a machine, see:
man 3 exception_intro
man 4 excpt
man 4 pdsc

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/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@tele.fi>