Zero-Overhead Exception Handling Using Metaprogramming

Markus Hof; Hanspeter Mössenböck; Peter Pirkelbauer

doi:10.1007/3-540-63774-5_122

Zero-Overhead Exception Handling Using Metaprogramming

Markus Hof, Hanspeter Mössenböck, Peter Pirkelbauer

Institute for Systems Software

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Abstract

We present a novel approach to exception handling which is based on metaprogramming. Our mechanism does not require language support, imposes no run time overhead to error-free programs, and is easy to implement. Exception handlers are implemented as ordinary procedures. When an exception occurs, the corresponding handler is searched dynamically using the type of the exception as a search criterion. Our implementation was done in the Oberon System but it could be ported to most other systems that support metaprogramming.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	SOFSEM'97, Milovy, Czech Republic
Publisher	Springer
Pages	423–431
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63774-5_122
Publication status	Published - Mar 1997

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

Fields of science

102 Computer Sciences
102009 Computer simulation
102011 Formal languages
102013 Human-computer interaction
102029 Practical computer science
102022 Software development
102024 Usability research

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10.1007/3-540-63774-5_122

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