[CLN-list] Overriding read_number_bad_syntax on OS X

[Richard B. Kreckel]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
>>I am imagining some Linux distribution where CLN is compiled with 
>>-fno-exceptions and a naive user is specifiying cl_reader_error to be 
>>called instead of exit. I haven't checked but I'm sure this will incur 
>>undefined behavior: a crash, a memory leak, you name it.
> 
> 
> It will be a memory leak. Like when you use longjmp to abort a computation.


I thought so, too. But over here it crashes. It seems like Ron is making 
the same experience.


>>So, to be safe, the library will have to be compiled with exceptions 
>>enabled. But what is the advantage of providing such a callback then? I 
>>don't think anyone will do anything but throw exceptions from it!
> 
> 
> Good point.
> 
> Just to think a bit further: Assume someone creates a C binding of CLN -
> this is a requirement brought up by RMS (such a thing existed a long time
> ago, but was unfortunately made with a proprietary ILOG tool) - how would
> the exception handling look like? Will it be a longjmp? Will it be a C++
> exception handler?


I would suggest to whoever is going to write those that exceptions are
caught in the C binding layer and transformed to return codes, messages,
errno, or whatever inside that layer.

   -richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
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