Even though exception handling is common and every introductory Java course covers it, I still don't think we really know how to do it well. It is almost as if the general concept is still evolving ...

Processors giveth and processors taketh away. They can fetch and store data or they can refuse to do either. When your processor aborts a data access, what can you do? This in-depth article explains ...

Normally, you don’t care about first-chance exceptions -- it's only when something becomes a second-chance exception that you start to pay attention. But when you do care about all the exceptions, ...

The .NET Framework Design Guidelines has this to say about reporting errors: "DO NOT return errors codes. ... "DO report execution failures by throwing exceptions. If a member cannot successfully do ...

The structured exception-handling system used by .NET is a highly efficient and powerful way to detect and handle errors. But if you've never dealt with exceptions before—like most Visual Basic ...

given there seems to be a pretty broad cross section of folks hanging out here, and I have no clues where else to start looking...<BR><BR>I'm porting some code from Win32 to Mac OS X and I have gone ...