[OT] Re: Exception Safe Programming

[Daniel Keep]

Saaa wrote:
> I was that far myself :)
> It is that I can list everything in that dir when that line is commented out
> (everything working fine)
> 
> I too found the error a bit strange, but I thought I shouldn't complain :D
> 
>> Saaa wrote:
>>> That is the whole code.. I've stripped it bare. Only a main calling that 
>>> function:
>>>
>>> void main()
>>> {
>>>  char[][] files;
>>>  getPictureList("pictures",files);
>>> }
>> Ah, I found the problem.  You're trying to list the contents of a 
>> directory that doesn't exist.  The error message isn't very clear, but 
>> that's the problem.  I don't know why commenting out the line with the 
>> throw is changing the behavior of the program, because it shouldn't. 

I've had some *really* bizarre problems with some Exceptions lately.  I
made the huge mistake of upgrading the D compiler when I had a working
project... spent a week trying to track down a weird bug only to
discover that for some reason, D was trying to memset 1.5GB of memory at
program startup, and then throwing Win32 exceptions every time I tried
to use a string as part of an Exception!

Tried to reduce it to a test case, but of course, I couldn't reproduce
the problem...  *grumble grumble*

Sorry, just needed to vent a little.  A week staring at assembler and
WinDbg only to discover D is doing something strange will do that :P

	-- Daniel

-- 
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