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Exception handling mechanism discussion #40

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@pakls

At the moment, DIV and MOD considers divide-by-zero (I'll call it as DBZ from now on) as unimplemented.

We are in need of an exception handling mechanism when DBZ happens.

I can think of a few ways now:

  1. Add a (typical) exception handling callback (like ISR) like general CPUs do.
  2. Add a global flag that can be set when DBZ happens and code can explicitly check the flag after a DIV or MOD operation is performed.

The considerations that I can think of by now. They are tradeoffs during most of the time.

A. Speed
B. VM Complexity
C. Support of higher level semantics, such as C++ Exception

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