Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Nit

[Andrew Suffield]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 05:13:55PM -0500, Charles Duffy wrote:
> One effective difference between C and Java: While there may be some
> necessity of having an effective handler for any given error, Java's
> syntax allows clumping rather than checking individually.

You can actually accomplish this in C, by using a variable outside the
scope of the functions. For ISO C, this means using a global, which
means sacrificing re-entrancy; for GNU C, you can do it using nested
functions.

I've used it once or twice, but only that often - it's not widely
useful.

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