[Issue 1001] print stack trace (in debug mode) when program die

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--- Comment #73 from Martin Nowak <code at dawg.eu> 2014-01-11 10:53:13 PST ---
(In reply to comment #72)
> (In reply to comment #71)
> OK... so the problem is basically that we call destructors / finally blocks /
> scope(exit) blocks when Errors are thrown, and those may behave in a bad way
> since the program was in an indeterminate state? I imagine that it's the same
> for signals on POSIX? In that case, I suppose we could handle both in the same
> way: immediately print a stack trace and exit, but still provide a mechanism
> for the user to customize handling of such conditions.
> 
> I recall a discussion regarding whether thrown Errors should call finalizers on
> the stack, but I suppose it's not really clear-cut.

It's a bigger topic amd opinions vary. AFAIK Errors skip cleanup code, but it's
possible to catch Errors to perform minimal cleanup.

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