From: lab.ultra.nyu.edu!kenner@nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: Ada/Ed on NeXT
Date: 5 Sep 93 18:33:40 GMT [thread overview]
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In article <26dail$3do@seine.cs.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) write
s:
>finally, something of interest to users of other languages.
>the Ada, Modula3 and C++ teams for gcc are adding support
>to the gcc backend for checked arithmetic and exceptions, which
>those languages provide in some form. this means that you may
>be able mix/match exception raising/handling from the different languages.
This is correct.
>It also means that C programs will have the CHOICE of generating checked
>arithmetic, meaning that overflows will be detected.
This is something that MAY be done, but there are significant language
issues in doing it, so it is by no means certain it will happen; it's
not a high priority. Adding exception raising/handling to the GNU C
language seems a higher priority, for example.
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