From: Matthew Heaney <matthewjheaney@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: Parameter return when exceptions occur
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:47:40 GMT
Date: 2004-10-31T14:47:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u654rj65p.fsf@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4181fbd4$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net
"Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com> writes:
> If a subprogram raises an exception you can assume /nothing/ about the
> contents of the returning values.
This is only true if this is a pass-by-copy type (scalar, etc). If the
type is pass-by-reference (tagged, etc), then yes, you can depend on the
values "returned" by the subprogram, even when there's an exception.
(In fact, the AI-302 containers depend on this behavior.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-31 14:47 UTC|newest]
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2004-10-29 3:02 Parameter return when exceptions occur Steve
2004-10-29 8:20 ` Martin Dowie
2004-10-31 14:47 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
2004-11-01 1:19 ` Steve
2004-11-01 4:11 ` Jeffrey Carter
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2004-10-29 8:41 Christoph Karl Walter Grein
2004-10-29 8:59 ` Martin Dowie
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