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authorAndrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>2001-11-19 21:44:46 +0000
committerAndrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>2001-11-19 21:44:46 +0000
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* defs.h (return_to_top_level): Comment.
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+2001-11-19 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
+
+ * defs.h (return_to_top_level): Comment.
+
Mon Nov 19 14:58:52 2001 Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>
* remote.c (remote_open_1, remote_async_open_1): Use ISO C string
diff --git a/gdb/defs.h b/gdb/defs.h
index 390600f..e338f3c 100644
--- a/gdb/defs.h
+++ b/gdb/defs.h
@@ -1112,6 +1112,21 @@ enum return_reason
#define RETURN_MASK_ALL (RETURN_MASK_QUIT | RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
typedef int return_mask;
+/* Throw an exception of type RETURN_REASON. Will execute a LONG JUMP
+ to the inner most containing exception handler (established using
+ catch_exceptions() or the legacy catch_errors()).
+
+ Useful when a section of code that caught an exception finds it
+ needs to repropagate that exception up the call chain.
+
+ The name return_to_top_level() dates back to a time when GDB had
+ only one exception handler installed at the top level. This really
+ did return to the top level. The name should probably be changed.
+
+ NOTE: Some sections of code are using error_begin() in conjunction
+ with return_to_top_level() to throw the initial exception. That
+ code should, instead, use either error() or error_string(). */
+
extern NORETURN void return_to_top_level (enum return_reason) ATTR_NORETURN;
/* Call FUNC(UIOUT, FUNC_ARGS) but wrapped within an exception