On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Zeev Suraski wrote:

> At 09:26 24/08/2005, Derick Rethans wrote:
> >On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Andi Gutmans wrote:
> >
> > > I didn't quite understand. Users would be able to handle E_FATAL 
> > errors? How
> > > would exceptions from those user handlers propagate the C extensions?
> >
> >No, they would only be able to catch E_ERROR, E_FATAL is the current
> >"E_ERROR" and can NOT be caught by the user defined error handler.
> >
> >New status (or atleast, IMO):
> >E_NOTICE:  Just for little notices to inform the user that something
> >           might have gone wrong.
> >E_WARNING: Something went wrong, probably resulting in unwanted
> >            behavior.
> 
> No change here (good!)
> 
> >E_ERROR:   An error situation occurred, which is probably dangerous for
> >            a script to continue, but does not leave the Engine itself in
> >            an unstable state. If this one is not caught in a user
> >            defined error handler, the application aborts.
> >E_FATAL:   The engine is in an unstable state, we have to abort. Not
> >            catchable by a user defined error handler.
> 
> Replacing the meaning of E_ERROR is elegant, but it does create a problem of
> cross-version compatibility of extensions (at the source code level).  If you
> want to raise an error that terminates execution, you'll have to do it in two
> different ways - that's quite annoying.  While I think there are a lot of
> situations where E_ERROR is an overkill, there are tons of situations where it
> isn't, so this is an issue.
> 
> Given that, I think we should go with the introduction of a new error level,
> E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR, and keep E_ERROR with its existing meaning.

I implemented that (except I dropped the _ERROR part for 
E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR as I found it too long). The patch is here:

http://files.derickrethans.nl/patches/e_fatal-20050825.diff.txt

Any comments?

regards,
Derick

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