[phobos] Calling abort() on unhandled exception

[Leandro Lucarella]

Michel Fortin, el 30 de julio a las 13:36 me escribiste:
> Le 2010-07-30 à 11:29, Sean Kelly a écrit :
> 
> > Another alternative is deriving all exceptions that shouldn't show a trace by default from an exception with a custom toString that omits this info. 
> 
> I think we already have one: the OwnerTermianted exception. We could
> use another "normal termination" exception meant to terminate the
> program. The advantage over calling exit(-1) directly is that it'll
> honor destructors, finally clauses, and scope(exit) statements.

I agree that using an special exception for normal termination could be
a good idea because of that (I even reported an enhancement asking for
that[1]). But that's a whole other discussion.

> Upon catching this exception at main()'s termination, the runtime
> could print its message but omit the stack trace.

That is perfectly fine with me.

[1] http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3462

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