[vlc-devel] commit: libvlc: Abort in case of unhandled exception. (Pierre d'Herbemont )

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

2009/6/24 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
> Le mercredi 24 juin 2009 18:43:44 Pierre d'Herbemont, vous avez écrit :
>> 2009/6/24 Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>:
>> > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:14:23 +0200, Sébastien Escudier
>> >
>> > <sebastien-devel at celeos.eu> wrote:
>> >> Quoting git version control <git at videolan.org>:
>> >>> vlc | branch: master | Pierre d'Herbemont <pdherbemont at free.fr> | Tue
>> >>
>> >> Jun 23
>> >>
>> >>> 22:03:57 2009 -0700| [dfa5d0bac97b05b83ba493ecf5516c1af1fc0e72] |
>> >>
>> >> committer:
>> >>> Pierre d'Herbemont
>> >>>
>> >>> libvlc: Abort in case of unhandled exception.
>> >>
>> >> Why ?
>> >> exceptions are not always critical, and vlc can still run ok after an
>> >> exception.
>> >> So if the user choose not to handle some of them, I don't think we
>> >> should abort.
>> >
>> > +1.
>> > Also many functions return error codes anyway, so the caller may be
>> > handling the error even without a dummy exception parameter. Really, this
>> > exception thing might be cool to interface with higher-level languages,
>> > but it just sucks for native applications.
>>
>> Point taken.
>>
>> I am not keen with this C exception stuff, it renders every C call
>> painfull and add an extra line, in which most of the time we don't do
>> any error handling.
>>
>> I have added this because I don't want to miss any error of this sort
>> in the test for now.
>>
>> I am planning to add a way to override the default exception not
>> handled handler. That would let us to do whatever we want with not
>> handled exception.
>
> I still don't see the point.

Point is:
- track what is wrong on the build bot
- don't pollute third party code with unwanted message or abort().

Very pragmatic, no design in mind, no religion on exception. Just fixing bugs.

> I stick to my point: exceptions are cool in languages that do implement
> exceptions. And only those.

Damned. Who said something different? Please re-read my post.

Pierre.