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Postings from May 2010
On 4 May 2010 00:28, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote: > Attached is a sequence of patches relating to die(). It fixes RT #74538, > along with moving more fully away from the historical requirement for > exceptions be no more than strings. It also fixes the issue with $@ > clobbering, which I've previously mentioned as a scoping/exception > problem. An overall theme for the patches is that $@ is currently given > too many jobs, some of them conflicting, so I've relieved it of some > of them. > > There are some changes in Perl-visible behaviour here. All the ones I > know about are intentional. No doubt someone will find some code that > gets broken by it. Let the bun fight begin. > > Patches also available at git://lake.fysh.org/zefram/perl.git branch > zefram/reliable_exception. Thanks, merged into bleadperl. I'm happy to see more sanity in exception-land. Note that I had to solve a few merge conflicts, due to Vincent's recent patching in that area. Also further adjustments were needed : 62705b21e05c097bbaecf3ca91f129dc5855ce77 : only a typo fix in embed.fnc c919e87379678094951ae4130a71bdc1938ccde1 : a test now failing in Safe. I am not convinced this test should absolutely pass. Basically, we compile and return an anonymous subroutine in a Safe compartment. This coderef, for security reasons, is then wrapped in a call to the same compartment -- see wrap_code_ref() in Safe.pm. The subroutine die()s, but no exception is re-thrown.Thread Previous