Float bug toolkit: what the hash is this?

Allen Wirfs-Brock Allen_Wirfs-Brock at Instantiations.com
Tue Aug 31 18:43:56 UTC 1999


At 05:28 PM 2/17/98 -0500, David N. Smith wrote:
>
>I think, in order to follow the intent of the standard, that Squeak should
>take no action by default, but allow a global setting (say of a block)
>which will raise a Smalltalk exception. Individual operations could also
>specify blocks which apply just to that operation.
>
>The standard suggests that trap handlers be a stack, so that a new one can
>be specified for a while, then the previous one restored.
>

I suggest combining the establishment of an exception handler with the
enabing of floating point exceptions





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