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Re:Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to ... by WalterBright on Saturday October 20, 2012 @07:45PM (#4678484)
setjmp/longjmp tends to be pretty primitive, compared to decent eh support.

Standard C does not have thread local storage.

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Re:Carbon: high level programming language that compiles to ... by tptacek on Saturday October 20, 2012 @08:15PM (#4678518)
Are you missing the fact that we're talking about using C as a substrate for a higher-level language?
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