"John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:53:44PM +1100, Igor Siemienowicz wrote:
> > 1. I could be wrong about this, but I heard that the exception-handling
> > stuff adds about 7-10K - now, this doesn't seem like such a big deal to
me,
> > [... snip ... ]
>
> IIRC the exception tables are currently placed in the global data.  In
> addition to the usual do-I-have-globals question, this means that even
> on Palm OS devices with lots of memory any bloat is significant, because
> global data is limited to 32K by a restrictive m68k addressing mode.

Ah, I guess that's why people seem to avoid them, even in CW - that space is
precious.

Many thanks, John, for that comprehensive answer - I guess it's error-codes
all the way, then... :-)

Igor Siemienowicz



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