Matthias Urlichs dixit:

>Thorsten Glaser:
>> Did you *read* how upstream answered the one thing I *did* forward
>> myself?
>>
>For the benefit of the other readers here, would you please supply a
>reference URL?

Sure: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728053

>> <igli> exceptions: a truly awful implementation of quite a nice idea.
>> <igli> just about the worst way you could do something like that, afaic.
>> <igli> it's like anti-design.  <mirabilos> that toob> <igli> sure, tho i 
>> doubt anyone will listen ;)
>
>I agree that they're somewhat like democracy -- pretty bad,
>but all other possible solutions are worse.

No, explicit C error handling, once you standardise on one
way of signalling errors (ideally, 0 = okay, !0 = error),
bears the other methods.

But let’s not become even more off-topic ☻

bye,
//mirabilos
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 seconds since the Epoch precisely represent the number of
 seconds between the referenced time and the Epoch.”
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