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Archive for February 11th, 2020

Catch Me If You Can: LLVM back-end cannot catch all exceptions

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/11

[WayBack] Catch Me If You Can:

the LLVM backend cannot return from a hardware exception (like AV) if the hardware exception is raised directly within a try...except block. It can only safely return if there is a function (method) call within the try...except block.

Via and by [WayBack] Dalija Prasnikar – Google+

–jeroen

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The Hard Thing About (Not So) Hard Things – John Cutler – Medium

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/11

Long read, but worth it: [WayBackThe Hard Thing About (Not So) Hard Things – John Cutler – Medium.

TL;DR: if you think these are hard, try them by reading the article:

Via: [WayBack] “what we call “hard” is often indicative of fear, lack of safety, lack of support, and limited ability to practice.” – Marjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

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Is there a keyboard shortcut to go to the next/previous compiler error in the current …

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/11

Via: [WayBack] Is there a keyboard shortcut to go to the next compiler error in the current source file? – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+:

Primož Gabrijelčič:
Alt-F7, Alt-F8 IIRC

And indeed, it is sort of documented as of Delphi 2007 for “Message View”, but appears to be a much older shortcut:

I also completely forgot the compiler output is indeed a “Message View”.

–jeroen

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