[phobos] Calling abort() on unhandled exception

Leandro Lucarella luca at llucax.com.ar
Fri Jul 30 06:45:13 PDT 2010



Steve Schveighoffer, el 30 de julio a las 03:44 me escribiste:
> Wouldn't this be useless?  That is, do you care about a core dump when the stack 
> is unwound (and the source of the problem is gone from the stack)?
> 
> If this is all you want, why not write your main that way?
> 
> BTW, my opinion is that an uncaught exception should not dump core.  It should 
> print a stack trace and exit with non-zero exit code.  I understand the 
> reasoning behind it, but dumping core is not a normal mode of operation for most 
> users.  They don't know what to do with a core file, and silently dumping core 
> on a system where one is not expecting it can fill up a filesystem.

Come on! Read the whole mail. abort() != dumping a core.

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