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From: felixk@mailbag.shd.de (Felix Kasza)
Subject: Re: Exception Handling
Date: 1996/09/13
Date: 1996-09-13T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32393072.72033128@shdgate.shd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 323750EA.167E@maths.usyd.edu.au


Robbie,

 > replies by email please, i don't read this group.

Not feeling very sociable today, are we?

 > Where did the concept of exception handling originate ?

I don't know -- but I do know that IBM's /360 architecture uses a
mechanism for OS calls which looks very much like a trap.  PDPs used
similar features to handle illegal memory references.  In the late 60s
or early 70s, I saw an APL interpreter for the PDP that expressly made
use of this although it didn't export the functionality to the
programmer (APL has no concept of an exception).

Cheers,
Felix.




  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-09-13  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-09-12  0:00 Exception Handling Robbie Gates
1996-09-12  0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1996-09-12  0:00   ` Rick Decker
1996-09-13  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-12  0:00 ` Bryce
1996-09-12  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-13  0:00     ` Robbie Gates
1996-09-14  0:00       ` Paul A. Houle
1996-09-18  0:00         ` Rick Decker
1996-09-13  0:00 ` Felix Kasza [this message]
1996-09-13  0:00   ` David B. Shapcott [C]
1996-09-18  0:00     ` Bart Termorshuizen
1996-09-16  0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-23  0:00   ` Robin Vowels
1996-09-24  0:00     ` Bob Halpern
1996-10-02  0:00       ` Fritz Schneider
1996-10-07  0:00         ` Robin Vowels
1996-10-09  0:00         ` shmuel
1996-10-09  0:00           ` Bob Halpern
1996-10-11  0:00           ` Exception Handling - Test Please Ignore jekis
1996-09-26  0:00     ` Exception Handling Thiago
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-05-29  0:00 NANCY HEHIR
2000-05-29  0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-05-30  0:00 ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-05-30  0:00   ` Gautier
2000-06-05  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
2000-06-01  0:00   ` Preben Randhol
2000-06-01  0:00     ` Ehud Lamm
2000-06-01  0:00     ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-06-02  0:00       ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-06-02  0:00         ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-06-01  0:00     ` Preben Randhol
2000-06-01  0:00     ` Jeff Carter
2000-06-02  0:00       ` Jeffrey D. Cherry
2000-06-02  0:00       ` Preben Randhol
2000-05-30  0:00 ` Antonio Dur�n Dom�nguez
2000-05-30  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-28  0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-09-17  0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-19  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-17  0:00 John Goodenough
1996-09-13  0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-15  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-23  0:00 ` Robin Vowels
1986-05-13 22:57 exception handling MIXSIM
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