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Re: [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages

From
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date
Oct 12, 2005, 01:20 UTC
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<pan.2005.10.12.01.20.17.917829@smurf.noris.de>
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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The sane way to do this is probably to call an overridable git_die() 
> function, which can be specified by the user to use longjmp(), to use 
> exceptions, or do something else appropriately.
> 
I thought about doing something like that, but ...
> However, a much bigger problem is cleanup.
> 
... exactly.
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Message 5 of 13 in “[RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages”
  1. Elfyn McBratneyOct 10, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2005
  3. Matthias UrlichsOct 11, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinOct 11, 2005
  5. Matthias UrlichsOct 12, 2005
  6. H. Peter AnvinOct 12, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2005
  8. H. Peter AnvinOct 12, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2005
  10. Matthias UrlichsOct 12, 2005
  11. Daniel BarkalowOct 10, 2005
  12. Alex RiesenOct 11, 2005
  13. H. Peter AnvinOct 11, 2005

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