[LLVMdev] 2.4 Pre-release (v1) Available for Testing

[Robert Zeh]

You're right that LLVM may be left in an unusable state --- I've  
encountered that problem on my own.

However, even a simple exit function would be useful.  If, instead of  
calling abort, LLVM called a function pointer I provided life would be  
much easier.  Even if the function call simply threw up a crash screen  
life would be better than calling abort. Ideally I'd like to throw an  
exception, and terminate gracefully.

Robert


> Hi,
>
>> Which makes me curious, if I submitted a patch that got rid of llvms
>> use of abort()s all over the place, and replaces them with exceptions
>> (the program dies either way if it is unhandled, but with exceptions
>> you at least get a chance to handle it and recover),
>
> since LLVM may well be left in an inconsistent state internally if
> an exception is thrown, it wouldn't be safe to continue using it
> after catching an exception.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Duncan.
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