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Subject: Re: Ensuring postconditions in the face of exceptions
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
> That's an interesting suggestion but we've patched the run-time library
> so that it dumps core on every exception; we use exceptions only for
> exceptional situations and dumping core freezes the system for 30
> seconds to produce a file roughly 300 MiB in size.  So I would rather
> not raise exceptions that are do not detect a bug.

Let me see if I understand this correctly: Visit raises an exception, which 
freezes the system for 30 s and writes a large file. Then you handle the 
exception, assign to Dirty, and re-raise the exception, again freezing the 
system and writing the file.

Is that how this is expected to work?

-- 
Jeff Carter
"We'll make Rock Ridge think it's a chicken
that got caught in a tractor's nuts!"
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