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From: Thiago <@thiago.elo>
Subject: Re: Exception Handling
Date: 1996/09/26
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Robin Vowels wrote:
> 
>         ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen) writes:
> 
>         >In article <323750EA.167E@maths.usyd.edu.au>, Robbie Gates
>         ><robbie@maths.usyd.edu.au> writes:
> 
>         >|> Where did the concept of exception handling originate ? For example,
>         >|> which languages were first to support this, or which papers first
>         >|> proposed exception handling ?
> 
> The IBM System 360 (c. 1965) had an interrupt system that could
> trap a range of computational conditions (division by
> zero, floating-point overflow, fixed-point overflow,
> floating-point underflow, loss of signficance, etc.
> Such exceptions could be trapped by the OS, and a few
> could be trapped by the user.  Such things
> as protection exceptions were trapped by the OS.
> 
> Operating system service was initiated with an interrupt
> generated by a user instruction SVC (SVC = SuperVisor Call).
> 
> THe S/360 probably extended the idea considerably over
> what had appeared before.
> 
> Before that (c. 1961), the Burroughs B series would have
> had protection and array subscript bound checking and whatever
> else.  Perhaps someone can add something for that or other systems..UFMA - Brasil
Here the Java programming language are not an usual one. We use usually C++, VB, 
CLIPPER and DELPHI.