[ODE] Have LCP throw exceptions?

[Shamyl Zakariya]

I think a user exception handler would be really really excellent,  
not to mention easy enough to implement.

shamyl at zakariya.net
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On Oct 8, 2006, at 1:26 AM, Jon Watte (ODE) wrote:

> Exceptions have two problems:
>
> 1) They don't work in C.
> 2) They have a non-zero cost, even when not thrown, in Microsoft  
> Visual C++.
>
> I remember back in the days when we implemented zero-overhead  
> exceptions
> in CodeWarrior, but apparently Microsoft didn't want to go that  
> route :-(
>
> An alternative would be to let the user register an "exception  
> handler"
> function pointer which we call in these cases, and the user can do
> whatever he/she wants. Meanwhile, the default would probably call  
> abort().
>
> Cheers,
>
>           / h+
>
>
> Bram Stolk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Would it make sense to convert LCP errors that go to stderr into  
>> exceptions?
>> I think it would help the reporter of this issue:
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? 
>> func=detail&aid=1566355&group_id=24884&atid=382799
>>
>> Or would that cause problems if you use ODE in a C environment,  
>> instead of C++ ?
>>
>>    Bram
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