From: Natasha Kerensikova <lithiumcat@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Reference counting and idempotent finalize
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 04:46:38 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2013-09-12T04:46:38+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnl32hou.1lme.lithiumcat@sigil.instinctive.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ly38pb6s8u.fsf@pushface.org
On 2013-09-11, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> writes:
>
>> ARM 7.6.1 says, "It is a bounded error for a call on Finalize or
>> Adjust that occurs as part of object finalization or assignment to
>> propagate an exception." My practice has, therefore, been to always
>> ensure that Finalize cannot propagate an exception.
>
> If one of my programs were to raise an exception in Finalize it would be
> because I hadn't understood the problem - or because Storage_Error - and
> in either case it wouldn't be safe to continue.
That's roughly the reasoning I had put behind the words "the world ends"
in the OP.
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-11 10:45 Reference counting and idempotent finalize Natasha Kerensikova
2013-09-11 11:21 ` AdaMagica
2013-09-11 12:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-12 5:34 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2013-09-12 7:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-11 12:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-12 4:53 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2013-09-11 12:21 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2013-09-11 20:03 ` Simon Wright
2013-09-12 4:46 ` Natasha Kerensikova [this message]
2013-09-12 5:05 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2013-09-12 7:54 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-12 17:03 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2013-09-11 13:50 ` Pascal Obry
2013-09-12 4:56 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2013-09-12 14:33 ` Simon Wright
2013-09-12 15:40 ` Pascal Obry
2013-09-12 10:23 ` sbelmont700
2013-09-30 6:25 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2013-09-30 10:02 ` AdaMagica
2013-10-01 6:22 ` Natasha Kerensikova
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