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- From: mendell@turing.toronto.edu (Mark Mendell)
- Subject: Re: C++ 3.0 and exceptions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.224432.21822@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Organization: IBM Toronto Lab
- References: <MATTHEW.92Aug19105738@matthew.ntl02.decnet.nokia.fi> <1992Aug21.011112.17870@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 02:44:33 GMT
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- IBM's xlC C++ compiler for the RS/6000 has been supporting C++ exception
- handling since May. It isn't all that hard to do (harder if you have to
- generate C), and can be done without full runtime type information. The
- compiler always knows the types being thrown and caught at compile time.
- --
- Mark Mendell
- IBM Toronto Lab
- mendell@torolab6.vnet.ibm.com
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