[Cuis-dev] [Ann] Refinements to Exception handling

Andres Valloud ten at smallinteger.com
Sun Oct 13 17:26:04 PDT 2019


I don't recall doing that.

On 10/13/19 17:00, Phil B wrote:
> It looks like we have at least some changes in the core image to 
> resolve.  World menu->Save as... now fails.  Has a scan of the image 
> been done to identify where these cases might be buried?
> 
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 9:48 AM Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev 
> <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st <mailto:cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Folks,
> 
>     Some time ago, Andrés (with just a tad of help from me) fixed a problem
>     in Exception handling. If exception handler blocks do non-local return
>     (^stuff), they will skip execution of part of the Exception handling
>     system code, breaking exception return values and possibly other 'bad
>     things'.
> 
>     I just pushed to GitHub a few updates with this work. Now, if an
>     exception handler does a non-local return, an Error will be raised. We
>     also fixed a couple of places in the image where this was being done.
>     BaseImageTests pass.
> 
>     This updates have some risk of breaking your code. If you you get this
>     error: 'Exception handler blocks must not do non local returns', then
>     you need to adjust your code. See updates #3917 to #3922 for the
>     changes
>     done to the base image.
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
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