llvm-6502/include/llvm/Support/ErrorHandling.h
Dan Gohman 583b6dbcc5 Add some comments clarifying what appear to be the intent of various
error handling mechanisms. Please correct these if I've misunderstood
something.


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//===- llvm/Support/ErrorHandling.h - Callbacks for errors ------*- C++ -*-===//
//
// The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
//
// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
//
// This file defines an API used to indicate error conditions.
// Callbacks can be registered for these errors through this API.
//
//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
#ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_ERRORHANDLING_H
#define LLVM_SUPPORT_ERRORHANDLING_H
#include "llvm/Support/Compiler.h"
#include <string>
namespace llvm {
class Twine;
/// An error handler callback.
typedef void (*llvm_error_handler_t)(void *user_data,
const std::string& reason);
/// llvm_instal_error_handler - Installs a new error handler to be used
/// whenever a serious (non-recoverable) error is encountered by LLVM.
///
/// If you are using llvm_start_multithreaded, you should register the handler
/// before doing that.
///
/// If no error handler is installed the default is to print the error message
/// to stderr, and call exit(1). If an error handler is installed then it is
/// the handler's responsibility to log the message, it will no longer be
/// printed to stderr. If the error handler returns, then exit(1) will be
/// called.
///
/// It is dangerous to naively use an error handler which throws an exception.
/// Even though some applications desire to gracefully recover from arbitrary
/// faults, blindly throwing exceptions through unfamiliar code isn't a way to
/// achieve this.
///
/// \param user_data - An argument which will be passed to the install error
/// handler.
void llvm_install_error_handler(llvm_error_handler_t handler,
void *user_data = 0);
/// Restores default error handling behaviour.
/// This must not be called between llvm_start_multithreaded() and
/// llvm_stop_multithreaded().
void llvm_remove_error_handler();
/// Reports a serious error, calling any installed error handler. These
/// functions are intended to be used for error conditions which are outside
/// the control of the compiler (I/O errors, invalid user input, etc.)
///
/// If no error handler is installed the default is to print the message to
/// standard error, followed by a newline.
/// After the error handler is called this function will call exit(1), it
/// does not return.
void llvm_report_error(const char *reason) NORETURN;
void llvm_report_error(const std::string &reason) NORETURN;
void llvm_report_error(const Twine &reason) NORETURN;
/// This function calls abort(), and prints the optional message to stderr.
/// Use the llvm_unreachable macro (that adds location info), instead of
/// calling this function directly.
void llvm_unreachable_internal(const char *msg=0, const char *file=0,
unsigned line=0) NORETURN;
}
/// Prints the message and location info to stderr in !NDEBUG builds.
/// This is intended to be used for "impossible" situations that imply
/// a bug in the compiler.
///
/// In NDEBUG mode it only prints "UNREACHABLE executed".
/// Use this instead of assert(0), so that the compiler knows this path
/// is not reachable even for NDEBUG builds.
#ifndef NDEBUG
#define llvm_unreachable(msg) llvm_unreachable_internal(msg, __FILE__, __LINE__)
#else
#define llvm_unreachable(msg) llvm_unreachable_internal()
#endif
#endif