[NBLUG/talk] Invention of the Unary Number System

[Steve Zimmerman]

On Monday 19 May 2003 10:06 pm, Andru wrote:

> Getting back to the Romans, even in C++, I would expect that an "uncaught"
> exception would be signaled to the OS by having a "catch all" clause in
> the runtime library's _start() function that returns a non-zero value to
> the OS when it catches an exception.
>

I believe the Romans had/have something like a  `moot_call( )' function.

typedef int Bool;
#define TRUE  1
#define FALSE  0

int main( )
{
	moot_call( );

	return 0;
}

void moot_call ( void )
{
	while (conversation_about_us_in_the_future) 
		erase_all_trace( );
}

Bool erase_all_trace ( void )
{
	int we_have_computers;

	we_have_computers = FALSE;
	return we_have_computers;
}

I think that's what you mean by "catch-all clause in the 
runtime library's _start() function."

Does that help?: