From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:23:47 GMT
Subject: Re: SEGV when lookup_* returns NULL
Message-ID: <118833cc0611271823t3b1783cem38f031ac26ac0f94@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7v3b84e8cg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

> Why?  You would certainly install your own die() handler by that
> time I presume?

Likely, but short of exiting or using longjmp/setjmp what can you do
in such a "die"?  Not much.  And most GUI users will be unhappy
with the exit approach.

If there is any chance that the error is not the programmer's fault, a
nice library ought to pass the error back somehow.