/*********************************************************** Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. All Rights Reserved Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the names of Stichting Mathematisch Centrum or CWI not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. ******************************************************************/ /* Error handling -- see also run.c */ /* New error handling interface. The following problem exists (existed): methods of built-in modules are called with 'self' and 'args' arguments, but without a context argument, so they have no way to raise a specific exception. The same is true for the object implementations: no context argument. The old convention was to set 'errno' and to return NULL. The caller (usually call_function() in eval.c) detects the NULL return value and then calls puterrno(ctx) to turn the errno value into a true exception. Problems with this approach are: - it used standard errno values to indicate Python-specific errors, but this means that when such an error code is reported by a system call (e.g., in module posix), the user gets a confusing message - errno is a global variable, which makes extensions to a multi- threading environment difficult; e.g., in IRIX, multi-threaded programs must use the function oserror() instead of looking in errno - there is no portable way to add new error numbers for specic situations -- the value space for errno is reserved to the OS, yet the way to turn module-specific errors into a module-specific exception requires module-specific values for errno - there is no way to add a more situation-specific message to an error. The new interface solves all these problems. To return an error, a built-in function calls err_set(exception), err_setval(exception, value) or err_setstr(exception, string), and returns NULL. These functions save the value for later use by puterrno(). To adapt this scheme to a multi-threaded environment, only the implementation of err_setval() has to be changed. */ #include "allobjects.h" #include "traceback.h" #include extern char *strerror PROTO((int)); /* Last exception stored by err_setval() */ static object *last_exception; static object *last_exc_val; void err_setval(exception, value) object *exception; object *value; { err_clear(); XINCREF(exception); last_exception = exception; XINCREF(value); last_exc_val = value; } void err_set(exception) object *exception; { err_setval(exception, (object *)NULL); } void err_setstr(exception, string) object *exception; char *string; { object *value = newstringobject(string); err_setval(exception, value); XDECREF(value); } object * err_occurred() { return last_exception; } void err_get(p_exc, p_val) object **p_exc; object **p_val; { *p_exc = last_exception; last_exception = NULL; *p_val = last_exc_val; last_exc_val = NULL; } void err_clear() { object *tb; XDECREF(last_exception); last_exception = NULL; XDECREF(last_exc_val); last_exc_val = NULL; /* Also clear interpreter stack trace */ tb = tb_fetch(); XDECREF(tb); } /* Convenience functions to set a type error exception and return 0 */ int err_badarg() { err_setstr(TypeError, "illegal argument type for built-in operation"); return 0; } object * err_nomem() { err_set(MemoryError); return NULL; } object * err_errno(exc) object *exc; { object *v; int i = errno; if (i == EINTR && sigcheck()) return NULL; v = mkvalue("(is)", i, strerror(i)); if (v != NULL) { err_setval(exc, v); DECREF(v); } return NULL; } void err_badcall() { err_setstr(SystemError, "bad argument to internal function"); }