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From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross)
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In article <10jjc9s$3uhtk$1@dont-email.me>,
Chris Ahlstrom  <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>Waldek Hebisch wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:
>
>> In alt.folklore.computers c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>> <snip> 
>>>   Hmm ... look at all the GNU 'compilers' -
>>>   FORTRAN, COBOL, Ada, 'D', M2, Rust,C++,
>>>   G++, even Algol-68. None are 'compilers'
>>>   per-se, but to-'C' TRANSLATORS. So, 'C',
>>>   pretty much All Are One And One Is All.
>>
>> No.  Compiler as first stage translate given language to a
>> common representation.  This representatiton is different
>> than C.  Ada and GNU Pascal have parametrized types, there
>> is nothing like that in C.
>>
>> <interjection>
>>
>> C++ (and some other languages)
>> have exceptions, C do not have them.
>
>What about setjmp()/longjmp() ?

Not at all the same thing.  `setjmp`/`longjmp` are about
non-local flows of control; exceptions are about non-local
passing of values.

Of course, one can use `setjmp` and `longjmp` to build an ersatz
exception system, but only as a part.  One can also use them to
build green threads, but they are not in themselves "threads".

	- Dan C.