From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Robin Vowels)
Subject: Re: Exception Handling
Date: 1996/09/23
Date: 1996-09-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <525m1s$jvh@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 51jtet$16qc@watnews1.watson.ibm.com
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....
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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
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 [this message]
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
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2000-05-29 0:00 NANCY HEHIR
2000-05-29 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-05-30 0:00 ` Antonio Dur�n Dom�nguez
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 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-28 0:00 Robert Dewar
1996-09-17 0:00 John Goodenough
1996-09-17 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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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