On 1. Dez 2005, at 19:26 Uhr, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
On 30 Nov 2005, at 05:15, Lloyd Dupont wrote:
Why is it that the default exception code call exit()
Because that causes the program to terminate cleanly .
Because it's what the spec/compatibility dictates.
Because there seems no other reasonable behavior.
why not let the program crahs normally?
Why do you want the program to crash? and how are you going to
make it 'crash normally'? if the handler did not terminate the
program, the program would try to continue ... and could do
anything ... corrupt data/files, bill your customers for things you
didn't deliver them etc.
I suppose the point was to call abort() instead of exit(), not to
continue the program. Which seems reasonable to me (for exactly the
same reason why the system calls abort() on errors instead of exit
() ...).
For a regular user this would not be an issue since coredumps usually
need to be enabled using ulimit.
Of course it would be extraordinarily cool if we would have a
coredump catcher like GNOME, Mozilla, Windows, OSX etc which allows
the user to send crash reports via mail.
Greets,
Helge
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