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		lpapez on Nov 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Carefully exploring Rust as a Python developer You are arguing on technicalities. By your logic signals are also exceptions, and so is poking a screwdriver into the RAM port. Makes no sense.

fulafel on Nov 13, 2022 | [–]

On hw level, memory access errors and hardware malfunctions are often called exceptions. For example, on x86 the MCE architecture does this.

pjmlp on Nov 13, 2022 | [–]

Windows exceptions are the equivalent of UNIX signals.

On hardware level exceptions are a synonym for traps.

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