-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 6/15/2009 2:08 AM: > What do the others think? Should we possibly extend stdlib.in.h so that > abort() becomes a macro that produces a detailed error message, similar to > what assert() does?
Only if you name it something other than abort(), to make it obvious that it will be printing a message in addition to aborting. Besides, it is possible to catch SIGABRT in order to do special handling, such as the way m4 prints a bug reporting address rather than dumping core, and that must continue to work whether the program sticks with abort() (no additional message) or uses your new proposed macro (a new message in addition to the bug reporting address triggered by the SIGABRT). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAko2OHwACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAfqgCfTr0IHU+S1RzH3L/9Cnu8O649 53kAoMx1RYopGMUr2gnNQ5ibm8cxRFpj =zQXH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
