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Good to see you find some languages not interesting, Alain.

The point is that in other languages setting up exceptions is much more expensive than in C++, and actually throwing them is relatively cheaper. Common Lisp is an example. Sadly.

My beef with C++ is that the amount of writings you have to consume to just use many of there features. Obviously for this you don't read the lawyerisms. The point being that the purely practical side is large.

Just don't use exceptions for regular flow control. Apart from bad style it is also horribly slow to actually throw exceptions (as opposed to just setting them up). This is also unique to C++, the fact that unthrown exceptions are very fast...

94970 goto to 5990 uniques label, top 10 gives a serious clue about what goto is used for: 14543 err 14159 out 7788 fail 5162 end 4774 done 3715 cleanup 3663 error 1707 bad 1016 Exit 766 failed

Disabling Skia and enabling HW acceleration on Windows LibreOffice was a cool trick; latest surprised me a bit by not allowing it :p Changelog covered it though: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Graphics Skia/HW-disabled...

Use tmux

So am I. They allow writing code much more clearly, because correct error raising and handling becomes either very concise (just say throw Exception('foo bar wen wrong')), or even invisible (most functions don't need try/catch blocks, because...

Not a problem. My italian is limited to counting to 10 as my Sicilian grandfather taught me.

I'm compiling some code from an Area51 repo just to get to KDE 6.6.0. Official FreeBSD repos are still on KDE 6.5.5 at this time.

xterm -geometry 1920x1200+0+0 work for me. Milkytracker save the window resolution if it's used in fullscreen with a WM, it start in fullscreen without WM. blender -W also work

Windowmaker can do what you want. Right click on titlebar, then you can choose window attributes and have options to switch off all window decorations including borders, and you can set 'start maximised'. The next time you start the program it...

wmCalClock, wmnd :)

Ok let me first depict what is the target. The program 86Box is an emulator that has a static non resizable window with a menu, toolbar, and virtual machine graphics output - the window size will be at the resolution of the emulated display *...

I'm a big fan of exceptions. And its often annoying that a lot of "safety" subsets always tend to think that the language is magically safer without them (sometimes it is but not always). That said, I have seen some crappy parsers throw...

In C++ you also have lambdas that can help you do a "double-break" to get out of nested loops in one step. But it doesn't work for nested lambdas :)

C++ is the favored language of pedantic language laywers

Defer is useful for dealing with temporary stuff. e.g "sharedVar.Lock(); defer sharedVar.Unlock()". Not when you want an effect to persist past a function return. If for example you must return 3 open files from a function or none in case of...

nslookup is in port bind-tools.

Maybe dig? (I used that a few times)

Just for my own clarification, can someone explain how all the functions refer to each other since I'm not clear how to identify an individual host or its location. I notice that FreeBSD does not include nslookup. Why is that? What to use...

My bad. I apologize. It was a stupid post on my part.

Turns out I haven't got relay_domains set - using virtual_alias_domains instead! Once I pointed fast_flush_domains to that it worked! Thanks for all your help.

I transcended typical window buttons :p

That looks nice. But why does every minor feature in C++ have to have a 33 page explanation?

In C++ you also have lambdas that can help you do a "double-break" to get out of nested loops in one step. But it doesn't work for nested lambdas :)

I would note that on this public forums, all of our words are going through an AI system anyway, likely multiple. The important bit is which end its going in and which end its coming out. Every page it processes, it becomes a little less fun at...

Indeed. I think that proposal is for a rollback. https://thephd.dev/c2y-the-defer-technical-specification-its-time-go-go-go Hopefully not too difficult for compiler vendors to implement. Time will tell!

In many cases, if a function is fully successful, you don't want cleanup. You return the newly allocated memory / resource as well as the other allocations underpinning it. Whereas a defer would incorrectly clean it up, even on success leading to...

Goto in C++ is rarely needed. Instead RAII should "undo" memory / resources allocated for unhealthy codepaths. However for C, it can help to avoid a lot of repetitive (and thus potentially erroneous) code. For example in a function that...

Great. I should be able to test with a v15 guest later today.

Unfortunately, the etrn is logged but no queued mail was sent. I still had to log in and flush.

balanga You're talking about creating an MCP server. There are many online resources and likely some working open source implementations out there. For example, https://github.com/executeautomation/mcp-database-server

Yeah, trough, i did indeed a quick copy paste. But it is not needed for this thread. [Later i'll do some tests with Valkey&Mongodb]

running FreeBSD 15 but with virtio. Partition could easily be resized (grown) and zpool online als worked. dmesg showed:

Well not only to jump to a cleanup section, but to a place where many jumps converge, forward or backward. It seems these trivial things are not clear to those that never programmed something like FORTRAN / assembler.

No I did not configure any firewall at all in FreeBSD or Linux

I see, it has also syntactic role to avoid such things.

It's not because you (and the compiler) know that the goto does not jump to e.g. another function, or backwards, or other nasty things. Also, at least in the Common Lisp version of this you can return a value from such a block.

To bad the guests are not running FreeBSD 15.0. Just tested in a 15.0-RELEASE bhyve guest (on a 15.0 host). A increase in disk size (truncate), while the vm is running, is picked up immediately: Chris I. , FreeBSD developers familiar with...

But that is like a label and a goto!!!!

I am trying to setup my laptop with FreeBSD so I can work while I am away from home. I have FreeBSD 14.3 (before 14.2), and installed in VirtualBox Windows 10 for setup my Fortinet VPN. Everything work fines except for the slowness of windows, so...

To bad the guests are not running FreeBSD 15.0. Just tested in a 15.0-RELEASE bhyve guest (on a 15.0 host). A increase in disk size (truncate), while the vm is running, is picked up immediately: Chris I. , FreeBSD developers familiar with...

If I'm understanding it correctly, FreeBSD 15 works like Linux according to this: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/#storage-general It says: "Add support for dynamically resizing NVMe namespaces. The nvd(4) and nda(4) drivers now...

Sure, all you have to do is have a special block with a name and then do a "break" or "return" with that name. http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec/Body/speope_return-from.html

That explains why nvmecontrol can see the new size. But I don't think that GEOM has to pick that up.

I haven't tried this myself, so YMMV, on the off chance that it's not out of date or wrong, the handbook does talk about this and explicitly notes how to do it without unmounting. I can't even find information on the -e switch, so this may very...

One of that constructs is break, but for only one level. There are of course choices, but makes the flow more complicated. Is there such a construct as general and simple as goto?

Why enable this if you're not going to use it?

In C you have no real choice. You need goto to jump out of nested loops and you need it to skip to a cleanup section at the end of a function. Both would be easily avoided with language constructs but alas they are not.