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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Gaylard <ag@computer.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Core dump when throwing an exception from a resumed partial continuation
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:34:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hak4vka7.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514B10C4.2030800@computer.org> (Andrew Gaylard's message of "Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:53:08 +0200")

On Thu 21 Mar 2013 14:53, Andrew Gaylard <ag@computer.org> writes:

> (catch #t
> (λ ()
> (throw 'oops)) ; should not crash the vm
> (λ ()
> (display "Success!")(newline))) ; never reached
>
> the VM still cores; "Success" is never shown. However, you've probably
> spotted my mistake: the handler should be (λ (key . args) ... ).

The core dump is another bug. but fixing the handler is the key thing:

> (catch #t
> (λ ()
> (throw 'oops)) ; should not crash the vm
> (λ (key . args)
> (display "Success!")(newline))) ; works!
>
> ...solves the problem, and the VM doesn't core any more.

Yep

Happy hacking :)

A
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      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-21 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-15 21:01 Core dump when throwing an exception from a resumed partial continuation Brent Pinkney
2013-03-15 21:30 ` Andy Wingo
2013-03-19  8:11   ` Andrew Gaylard
2013-03-21  9:43 ` Andy Wingo
2013-03-21 13:53   ` Andrew Gaylard
2013-03-21 15:34     ` Andy Wingo [this message]

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