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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: Ada and embedded applications
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:47:47 +0300
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote in message >
> But the more desirable implementation is to save the small cost of
> setting that pointer, and spend perhaps 10,000 instructions searching a
> table of code addresses when an exception is raised.  If exceptions
> being raised are rare, but blocks protected by exception handlers are
> more common, that's a win.
>

Some insight may be gained from looking at system.exceptions and
ada.exceptions in the Gnat distribution.


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