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The default exception handler doesn't use functions registered with Printexc.register_printer #5040

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vicuna opened this issue Apr 28, 2010 · 4 comments

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vicuna commented Apr 28, 2010

Original bug ID: 5040
Reporter: @glondu
Assigned to: @diml
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2015-12-11T18:26:38Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Fixed in version: 4.02.0+dev
Category: ~DO NOT USE (was: OCaml general)
Tags: patch
Related to: #5941
Monitored by: maizatulin @gasche mehdi "Dmitry Grebeniuk" @diml @ygrek @jmeber @hcarty @Chris00

Bug description

Hello,

The default exception handler (called when the program aborts with an uncaught exception) doesn't use functions registered with Printexc.register_printer. Attached is a tentative patch. The only caveat I see so far is that if the printer raises an exception itself, the printed backtrace (if any) will the printer's.

Cheers,

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Stéphane

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vicuna commented May 4, 2010

Comment author: @xavierleroy

There is a way to preserve the stack backtrace. At this point, I'm wondering whether most of the uncaught exception processing could be done in Caml. The main concern is Out_of_memory conditions. To be continued.

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vicuna commented Jun 21, 2012

Comment author: @glondu

The documentation for Printexc.catch says:

This function is deprecated: the runtime system is
now able to print uncaught exceptions as precisely
as Printexc.catch does.

But I think this is not true because of this bug.

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vicuna commented Apr 15, 2014

Comment author: @Chris00

IMHO, this bug is "annoying" when coupled to the fact that the default exception handler does not print floats—there is no way to circumvent that for constructors of interest.

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vicuna commented Apr 18, 2014

Comment author: @diml

The patch for 5941 closes this issue.

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