Re: Cross-Platform Windows plus Mac

In article <gandreas-8923B8.10052308112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 glenn andreas <gandreas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <macdev-267894.01334708112007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Ben Artin <macdev@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > Given a language feature that is semantically equivalent in two
languages 
> > (such as exceptions), not being able to use that feature across the
two 
> > languages has nothing to do with proper separation and everything to
do 
> > with running into a limitation of the language bridge and sucking it
up.
> 
> Except that they are not semantically equivalent - C++ exceptions call
dtors 
> as the stack is unwound, while Objective-C exceptions don't (since 
> Objective-C is built on C which has no such notion, and was implemented
via 
> setjmp/longjmp).  They are two completely different models (stack
unwinding 
> with compiler generated tables for stack layout vs setjmp/longjmp) that
share 
> some similar concepts but im****tant semantic differences.

Good point!

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