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From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: GNAT exception traceback
Date: 1997/06/20
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Date: 1997-06-20T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <33A85168.4E1A@no.such.com> Spam Hater <no.such.user@no.such.com> writes:
>No system call or any other call.  40 lines of assembler, 
>consisting of a little setup and a loopof nine instructions.  
>The originator also claims it's fast.  I didn't think to ask 
>whether it is Verdix specific.

In order to get a traceback on a Sparc running a standard operating
system, you *must* do a system call.  Otherwise, the code may be very
fast, but is not correct.