On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 21:57:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 8/6/2014 10:18 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
So from a functional perspective, assuming this is a
multithreaded app, what
should the procedure be when an AssertError is thrown in some
thread?
Print message, stop the process and all its threads.
Rationale: the program is in an unknown, invalid state, which
will include any thread (or process) that has access to memory
shared with that failed thread.
Strictly speaking we would need to kill only those threads. But I
guess it wouldn't be worth the effort, because the remaining
threads are most likely not expecting them to disappear and
couldn't recover from this.
