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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