Re: abort() calls

On Apr 28, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Jonathan Gilbert wrote:

> At 10:13 PM 4/28/2007 +0200, Brane wrote:
>> Stefan Küng wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In the Subversion code, there are a lot of calls to the abort()
>>> function. I think those should be removed and replaced with
>>> something
>>> else.
>>
>> Oh wow, you've gone and opened a can of worms that we've had trouble
>> closing in the past.
> [snip]
>> I'm willing to consider using something else instead of abort(). But
>> someone will have to come up with a proposal that works
>> everywhere, not
>> just in Windows GUI with just-in-time debugging.
>
> What about -- on platforms that support it -- allowing the project
> calling
> into the library to provide a jmp_buf to be longjmp()ed to instead of
> abort()ing, and replacing the abort() calls with calls to a wrapper
> function to pick between that and abort() if the user hasn't
> provided a
> jmp_buf (or the platform doesn't support it)?

How does this interact with C++ code and exceptions?

Regards,
Blair

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