[SPAM] - Re: [c++-pthreads] pthread_cancel and EH: let's try this again - Email found in subject

[Alexander Terekhov]

Ted Baker wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 04:48:43PM +0300, Peter Dimov wrote:
> > That's even more surreal.
> >
> > C, a language that has no exceptions and no concept of exception safety,
> > enables programmers to use thread cancellation ...
> 
> But being able to do do something is not the same as being
> able to do something safely.
> 
> > ... via a mechanism that is (admittedly) lifted from C++...
> 
> I don't know where you got that idea.  AFIK the mechanism predateds C++.

Right. Modula 2+ predates ARM C++. ;-)

http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/SRC-020.pdf
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http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Modula-2%2B

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Modula-2 plus exceptions and threads developed by P. Rovner et al 
of DEC SRC, Palo Alto CA in 1984. 

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regards,
alexander.