[llvm-dev] [RFC] Error handling in LLVM libraries.

[James Y Knight via llvm-dev]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Lang Hames <lhames at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see the attribute as complimentary. The runtime check provides a
> stronger guarantee: the error cannot be dropped on any path, rather than
> just "the result is used". The attribute can help you catch obvious
> violations of this at compile time.
>

I agree the runtime check *can* catch something additional, it just doesn't
feel to me like the extra complexity has been justified.

Or, at least, I'd have imagined a much simpler and straightforward
interface would be fully sufficient. E.g., instead of the all the
catch/handle stuff, if you want to handle a particular class specially, how
about just using an if?

TypedError err = somethingThatCanFail();
if (err) {
  if (err.isClassOf(...)) {
    whatever;
  else
    return err;
}
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