Path: csiph.com!4.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED.news.iecc.com!nerds-end From: Hans-Peter Diettrich Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Optimization techniques and runtime checks Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 22:50:10 +0200 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 16 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <19-05-071@comp.compilers> References: <72d208c9-169f-155c-5e73-9ca74f78e390@gkc.org.uk> <19-04-021@comp.compilers> <19-04-023@comp.compilers> <19-04-037@comp.compilers> <19-04-046@comp.compilers> <19-05-052@comp.compilers> <19-05-059@comp.compilers> <19-05-064@comp.compilers> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: gal.iecc.com; posting-host="news.iecc.com:2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970"; logging-data="62522"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@iecc.com" Keywords: design, errors Posted-Date: 09 May 2019 11:26:22 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:2306 Am 08.05.2019 um 10:31 schrieb David Brown: > And often there is no way to handle run-time errors sensibly anyway. > You don't want your car brakes to give you a message "Your braking > system has encountered an integer overflow. Please report this error to > your car dealer". You want the brake software developers to be > /absolutely/ sure that overflows can't happen - and then there is no > point in run-time checks. Most probably no user will ever have a chance to report above error :-] I found SEH quite nice for handling errors. In detail with the Java feature that the compiler can complain about unhandled exceptions. DoDi