Dear All, Is there a good reason why plexit must force a program abort even if the programmer has written their own exit_handler? For simple user-written code I guess this isn't too much of a problem, but for anything that is distributed or given to a third party, having an application crash is very unkind. In addition to the annoyance of the crash, the lost work (which en exit_handler might/might not be able to minimise), and the inability or difficulty in fixing or avoiding the crash next time, such a crash reflects badly on the author of the application.
I would have thought that plexit could/should: Check if there is an exit_handler If so, pass control to it and on return execute a simple return If not, then I guess crashing immediately might be best This gives the programmer the opportunity and responsibility to deal with the error if they can/wish. Thanks Steve -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Professor Steven J Schwartz Phone: +44-(0)20-7594-7660 Head, Space & Atmospheric Physics Fax: +44-(0)20-7594-7772 The Blackett Laboratory E-mail: s.schwa...@imperial.ac.uk Imperial College London Office: Huxley 6M67A London SW7 2AZ, U.K. Web: www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~sjs +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA® Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
