/* Exception (throw catch) mechanism, for GDB, the GNU debugger. Copyright 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GDB. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #ifndef EXCEPTIONS_H #define EXCEPTIONS_H /* Reasons for calling throw_exceptions(). NOTE: all reason values must be less than zero. enum value 0 is reserved for internal use as the return value from an initial setjmp(). The function catch_exceptions() reserves values >= 0 as legal results from its wrapped function. */ enum return_reason { /* User interrupt. */ RETURN_QUIT = -2, /* Any other error. */ RETURN_ERROR }; #define RETURN_MASK(reason) (1 << (int)(-reason)) #define RETURN_MASK_QUIT RETURN_MASK (RETURN_QUIT) #define RETURN_MASK_ERROR RETURN_MASK (RETURN_ERROR) #define RETURN_MASK_ALL (RETURN_MASK_QUIT | RETURN_MASK_ERROR) typedef int return_mask; /* Describe all exceptions. */ enum errors { NO_ERROR, /* Any generic error, the corresponding text is in exception.message. */ GENERIC_ERROR, /* Add more errors here. */ NR_ERRORS }; struct exception { enum return_reason reason; enum errors error; char *message; }; /* A pre-defined non-exception. */ extern const struct exception exception_none; /* Throw an exception (as described by "struct exception"). Will execute a LONG JUMP to the inner most containing exception handler established using catch_exceptions() (or similar). Code normally throws an exception using error() et.al. For various reaons, GDB also contains code that throws an exception directly. For instance, the remote*.c targets contain CNTRL-C signal handlers that propogate the QUIT event up the exception chain. ``This could be a good thing or a dangerous thing.'' -- the Existential Wombat. */ extern NORETURN void throw_exception (struct exception exception) ATTR_NORETURN; extern NORETURN void throw_reason (enum return_reason reason) ATTR_NORETURN; extern NORETURN void throw_verror (enum errors, const char *fmt, va_list ap) ATTR_NORETURN; extern NORETURN void throw_vfatal (const char *fmt, va_list ap) ATTR_NORETURN; extern NORETURN void throw_vsilent (const char *fmt, va_list ap) ATTR_NORETURN; /* Call FUNC(UIOUT, FUNC_ARGS) but wrapped within an exception handler. If an exception (enum return_reason) is thrown using throw_exception() than all cleanups installed since catch_exceptions() was entered are invoked, the (-ve) exception value is then returned by catch_exceptions. If FUNC() returns normally (with a postive or zero return value) then that value is returned by catch_exceptions(). It is an internal_error() for FUNC() to return a negative value. For the period of the FUNC() call: UIOUT is installed as the output builder; ERRSTRING is installed as the error/quit message; and a new cleanup_chain is established. The old values are restored before catch_exceptions() returns. The variant catch_exceptions_with_msg() is the same as catch_exceptions() but adds the ability to return an allocated copy of the gdb error message. This is used when a silent error is issued and the caller wants to manually issue the error message. FIXME; cagney/2001-08-13: The need to override the global UIOUT builder variable should just go away. This function superseeds catch_errors(). This function uses SETJMP() and LONGJUMP(). */ struct ui_out; typedef int (catch_exceptions_ftype) (struct ui_out *ui_out, void *args); extern int catch_exceptions (struct ui_out *uiout, catch_exceptions_ftype *func, void *func_args, char *errstring, return_mask mask); typedef void (catch_exception_ftype) (struct ui_out *ui_out, void *args); extern int catch_exceptions_with_msg (struct ui_out *uiout, catch_exceptions_ftype *func, void *func_args, char *errstring, char **gdberrmsg, return_mask mask); extern struct exception catch_exception (struct ui_out *uiout, catch_exception_ftype *func, void *func_args, return_mask mask); /* If CATCH_ERRORS_FTYPE throws an error, catch_errors() returns zero otherwize the result from CATCH_ERRORS_FTYPE is returned. It is probably useful for CATCH_ERRORS_FTYPE to always return a non-zero value. It's unfortunate that, catch_errors() does not return an indication of the exact exception that it caught - quit_flag might help. This function is superseeded by catch_exceptions(). */ typedef int (catch_errors_ftype) (void *); extern int catch_errors (catch_errors_ftype *, void *, char *, return_mask); /* Template to catch_errors() that wraps calls to command functions. */ typedef void (catch_command_errors_ftype) (char *, int); extern int catch_command_errors (catch_command_errors_ftype *func, char *command, int from_tty, return_mask); #endif