Subj : How do I raise an exception?
To   : Thomas Sondergaard
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Tue Aug 02 2005 03:25 pm

  Re: How do I raise an exception?
  By: Thomas Sondergaard to netscape.public.mozilla.jseng on Tue Aug 02 2005 11:29 am

 > It seems that returning JS_FALSE from a JSNative c-function just results
 > in an error. How do I raise an exception? Preferably of type Error.
 > 
 > I've found some prior posts that seems to indicate that JS_ReportError
 > should do this, but doesn't because of a bug.

I use JS_ReportError and it seems to work fine. Example:

        if((p=(private_t*)malloc(sizeof(private_t)))==NULL) {
                JS_ReportError(cx,"malloc failed");
                return(JS_FALSE);
        }

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