Re: abort() calls

Jonathan Gilbert wrote:
> 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)?
>

The number of implicit +1s to this proposal really make hair stand on end.

The following really applies to any kind of abort() alternative, but
longjmp sticks out.

    * How do you get the right jmp_buf to all the necessary places in
      all the Subversion libraries? we don't pass around a context
      object where it could be stored.
    * What do you do with dangling resources (open files, etc.) that
      can't be cleaned up after a longjmp?
    * How do you safely do /anything/ but end the process after you
      catch a longjmp?

In other words: how is the cure not worse than the disease?

-- Brane

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Received on Mon Apr 30 20:22:14 2007