Unix error handling
Tim Dawson
tim at Xsys..uucp
Thu Sep 6 01:22:47 AEST 1990
david at Neon.Stanford.EDU (David M. Alexander) writes:
>You must have been reading about AIXv3 setjmp() and longjmp() recently.
>You can use these calls to do exactly that.
>AIXv3 is turning out to be a really nice OS.
I hate to pop this bubble, but setjmp() and longjmp() are NOT from AIX - they
are a part of the SysVR3 release from AT&T and are utilized within Unix, among
other places. Source of my information: AT&T System 5 Release 3 internals
training. I have not checked too many OS ports, but this (based on the above)
exists in AIX, and also exists in Motorola SysV68 and SysV88, and I suspect in
most all ports of System V Release 3! Let's not give IBM credit for something
that they definitely did NOT come up with!
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Tim Dawson (...!texsun!Athena!tim) Motorola Computer Systems, Dallas, TX.
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