<snip>
I don't know why it would be desirable for the operating system itself to
provide this functionality. The trend is actually in the opposite direction.
</snip>
Off the top of my head, consistency across applications, speed of development
(not having to code the error handling), not reinventing the wheel.
Rick
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From: midrange-l-bounces+rick.chevalier=americredit.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Behalf Of Brian Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:47 AM
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Subject: Re: i5/OS is better than Linux.
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:51:08 -0400
"Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
your welcome to explain further. I have the Stevens books on Unix
programming and there is no mention of exception handling.
That's a very good book, but it doesn't cover everything. Exceptions can be
thrown and caught in several dozen languages that run in UNIX-like operating
systems.
or the structure of the call stack.
That probably varies widely by architecture, etc.
I am sure there is source code debugging, but it is all handled by the
language compiler, not the OS like you see in i5/OS or the .NET CLR.
There are many, many facilities that use different methods and techniques. See
ptrace, gdb, valgrind, etc. There are so many debugging tools available that it
would be a difficult task to even summarize the main ones.
I don't know why it would be desirable for the operating system itself to
provide this functionality. The trend is actually in the opposite direction.
--
Brian Lewis
http://www.i5sec.com/
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