Re: Exceptions from C code / handling them in scheme

[Richard Guenther]

I should have told you that I'm trying to solve the problem
of handling errors in C code that has been called from scheme
code that has been called from C code... (at the time being
guile just quits my C program if f.i. SCM_ASSERT fails - which
is not very nice).

Richard.

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Richard Guenther wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> What is the recommended way to "fail" in C code called from
> scheme? I.e. is there something like an exception that can
> be thrown and catchen in scheme code? I see there is f.i.
> SCM_ASSERT - how can I manually "throw" such an exception and
> how can I catch this in scheme code? A simple example would
> be helpful.
> 
> Thanx, Richard.

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