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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GDB to C++ issue: deletion
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> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 11:28:50 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 06:16:14PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Thanks.  I understand what you are saying, but no longer can imagine
> > why people would find this confusing.  Perhaps I'm too used to Lisp,
> > C++, and the C code in the Emacs Lisp engine to find exception
> > handling confusing.
> 
> And also used to GDB, perhaps?

Yes, that too.

Since RMS originally wrote both Emacs and GDB, their top-level event
loops look almost identical in structure and the way they implement
exceptions thrown by inferior code.