Subj : Re: Longjmp in error reporters?
To   : Alain Frisch
From : Alain Frisch
Date : Thu May 26 2005 02:58 pm

Alain Frisch wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm embedding SpiderMonkey in a language with a notion of exceptions. 
> Raising an exception is internally implemented with a longjmp.
> 
> Is it safe to throw such an exception from an JSErrorReporter?
> It would escape from the JS evaluator. I'm worried about its internal 
> state...

At least the error message should be released by hand... Ok, I guess 
this is not a good idea. I will just copy the error in a global
variable, and throw the exception after the evaluator has returned.

-- Alain

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