Non local returns finally fixed!!!

Paul McDonough wnchips at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 6 14:34:13 UTC 2000


Actually, Tim Rowledge did most of the recent work. 
And it wasn't bad work, at that.

--- Stephen Pair <spair at advantive.com> wrote:
> It seems that Paul McDonough and others have finally
> got a good and
> efficient solution to the bug in handling non-local
> returns through contexts
> with unwind behavior!!!
> 
> I just had a look at the code and it's great to see
> this problem finally
> resolved.  Having the stack get all mangled, or
> worse, crashing Squeak was
> just not good.  And coding around the problem is
> annoying.
> 
> Unfortunately, this means building a new VM, but I
> think this one is worth
> it.  Also with these changes, Squeak now passes all
> of the ANSI E.H. test
> suites.
> 
> Can we get this in the 2.9 release?  Please, please,
> please.
> 
> Great job on finally getting that one resolved!
> 
> - Stephen
> 


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