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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
Cc: frysk@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: elfutls using assert
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 23:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070709230811.DCB0C4D0585@magilla.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andrew Cagney's message of  Monday, 9 July 2007 08:38:22 -0400 <46922C3E.9040301@redhat.com>

No, there is no way not to call abort.  It is used for situations that are
pathological in the same way as a clobbered pointer that might lead to a
crash.  If you want to improve recovery from such bugs, you might as well
catch all unexpected fatal signals and diagnose gracefully there (maybe if
things aren't too bad you can throw an exception from the signal handler
and never consult the clobbered data structures while reporting and exiting).

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-09 12:38 Andrew Cagney
2007-07-09 23:08 ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2007-07-10 15:34   ` Andrew Cagney
2007-07-10 18:47     ` Roland McGrath
2007-07-12 15:10       ` Andrew Cagney

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