[phobos] Calling abort() on unhandled exception

Steve Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 30 07:54:06 PDT 2010





----- Original Message ----
> From: Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Fri, July 30, 2010 10:46:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [phobos] Calling abort() on unhandled exception
> 
> That's the thing.  With Leandro's proposed behavior, the stack isn't  unwound 
>because the exception is effectively never caught.  The runtime can  still print 
>the error message like it does now, it just works as if from a  signal handler.
>

With stack trace?  I'd much rather have a stack trace than a core file.  A stack 
trace can easily be read, is easy to email/attach to a bug report, and does not 
require duplicating the entire environment to use.

-Steve



      


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