Sounds good. Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 29, 2010, at 6:47 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> wrote: > I suggest you call raise(SIGABRT) directly so you don't see the weird > messages printed by the runtimes. > > Andrei > > Sean Kelly wrote: >> The error is still printed, I'm trying to create a core dump also. Sent from >> my iPhone >> On Jul 29, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Unhandled exceptions should print the error message associated with the >>> exception. This is so that, for example, you can write a file copy program >>> without paying any attention to error messages. If an error happens, the >>> program will print the right error message. >>> >>> Getting a core dump instead would be most unattractive. >>> >>> Sean Kelly wrote: >>>> (posted here because so few people read the druntime list) >>>> >>>> I've been working on allowing core dumps to be created when an unhandled >>>> exception is thrown in a D app. To avoid some weirdness that arises when >>>> an exception is thrown beyond the scope of (C) main() I'm calling abort() >>>> after terminating everything possible and reporting the exception. What >>>> I'm wondering is whether this is an acceptable way to terminate a D app in >>>> this situation or if I should do something else. I was looking at the >>>> Win32 docs for abort() and they're a bit weird: >>>> >>>> By default, the abort routine prints the message: >>>> >>>> "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an >>>> unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more >>>> information." >>>> >>>> It then calls raise(SIGABRT). >>>> >>>> Even on OSX I see an "Abort trap" message in the console when I exit an >>>> app in this way. I'm inclined to think that this isn't acceptable and >>>> that I should just try and sort out the weirdness that results from >>>> throwing an object outside of main(), but I thought I'd ask here for >>>> suggestions. As an alternative I could call asm HLT, but this may bypass >>>> too much C-level runtime stuff. Thoughts? >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> phobos mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos >> _______________________________________________ >> phobos mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
