From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: C vs Ada code quality
Date: 1997/04/29
Date: 1997-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5k4vj7$603$1@news.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.862056422@merv
In article <dewar.862056422@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Now you may wonder why in practice C++ implementations have
>avoided the use of dynamic lists for finalization, and Ada implementations
>have often used them. The answer is simple. Once you have to deal with
>exceptions the dynamic list has real advantages -- the C++ world is
>working through these problems now -- for example, see the discussions
>with respect to g++ and exeptions, where recently someone seriously
>suggested the possibility of going to lists for handling destructors.
Indeed it is my understanding that this was recently done in the GCC
development sources.
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1997-04-24 0:00 C vs Ada code quality Robert Dewar
1997-04-26 0:00 ` Valentin Bonnard
1997-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-04-29 0:00 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
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1997-05-01 0:00 Valentin Bonnard
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