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   Hans-Peter Diettrich to All   
   Re: Optimization techniques and runtime    
   08 May 19 22:50:10   
   
   From: DrDiettrich1@netscape.net   
      
   Am 08.05.2019 um 10:31 schrieb David Brown:   
      
   > And often there is no way to handle run-time errors sensibly anyway.   
   > You don't want your car brakes to give you a message "Your braking   
   > system has encountered an integer overflow.  Please report this error to   
   > your car dealer".  You want the brake software developers to be   
   > /absolutely/ sure that overflows can't happen - and then there is no   
   > point in run-time checks.   
      
   Most probably no user will ever have a chance to report above error :-]   
      
   I found SEH quite nice for handling errors. In detail with the Java   
   feature that the compiler can complain about unhandled exceptions.   
      
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