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authorAndrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>2005-01-12 18:31:35 +0000
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* exceptions.h (enum return_reason, RETURN_MASK) (RETURN_MASK_QUIT, RETURN_MASK_ERROR, RETURN_MASK_ALL) (return_mask, throw_exception, catch_exceptions_ftype) (catch_exceptions_with_msg, catch_errors_ftype, catch_errors) (catch_command_errors_ftype, catch_command_errors): Move to exceptions.h. * exceptions.c, exceptions.h: New files. * top.c: Do not include <setjmp.h>. (SIGJMP_BUF, SIGSETJMP, SIGLONGJMP, catch_return) (throw_exception, catcher, catch_exceptions) (catch_exceptions_with_msg, struct catch_errors_args) (do_catch_errors, catch_errors, struct captured_command_args) (do_captured_command, catch_command_errors): Move to exceptions.c. * wrapper.c, wince.c, win32-nat.c, utils.c: Include "exceptions.h". * tui/tui-interp.c, top.c, thread.c, symmisc.c: Ditto. * symfile-mem.c, stack.c, solib.c, rs6000-nat.c: Ditto. * remote-sds.c, remote-mips.c, remote-fileio.c: Ditto. * remote-e7000.c, objc-lang.c, ocd.c: Ditto. * remote.c, nto-procfs.c, monitor.c, mi/mi-main.c: Ditto. * main.c, m32r-rom.c, infrun.c, inf-loop.c: Ditto. * hppa-hpux-tdep.c, frame.c, event-top.c, event-loop.c: Ditto. * corelow.c, corefile.c, cli/cli-interp.c, breakpoint.c: Ditto. * ada-valprint.c, ada-lang.c: Ditto. * Makefile.in (HFILES_NO_SRCDIR, COMMON_OBS): Add exceptions.h and exceptions.o. Update all dependencies.
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+/* 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_exception(). 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;
+
+/* 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()).
+
+ 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 (enum return_reason) 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);
+extern int catch_exceptions_with_msg (struct ui_out *uiout,
+ catch_exceptions_ftype *func,
+ void *func_args,
+ char *errstring, char **gdberrmsg,
+ 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