Jens Mueller <jens.k.muel...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I've written a small module for debugging on Posix systems. > It uses raise(SIGTRAP) and a custom errorHandlerType with > setAssertHandler. But setAssertHandler is deprecated. > Why is it deprecated? How should I do it instead? > > I want to do it generally for Error and Exception. Don't know how yet. > How do you debug your programs? I've read that gdb has catch throw for > C++ to break when exceptions are thrown. I don't like changing gdb for > this. > My idea is that instead of throwing an Error/Exception I print it and > then raise SIGTRAP.
It's deprecated because DMD doesn't generate a valid call stack when generating an assert, so if you try to return from the assert handler instead of throwing the app will crash.
