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authorSteve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>2005-07-26 15:42:38 -0500
committerH.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>2005-07-27 16:26:16 +0000
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@@ -877,9 +877,9 @@ retrieves the return op from it, and returns it.
=item Exception handing
-Perl's exception handing (ie C<die> etc) is built on top of the low-level
+Perl's exception handing (i.e. C<die> etc) is built on top of the low-level
C<setjmp()>/C<longjmp()> C-library functions. These basically provide a
-way to capture the current PC and SP registers and later restore them; ie
+way to capture the current PC and SP registers and later restore them; i.e.
a C<longjmp()> continues at the point in code where a previous C<setjmp()>
was done, with anything further up on the C stack being lost. This is why
code should always save values using C<SAVE_FOO> rather than in auto