Re: Major revision for error handling in the interpreter

[Pantxo]

John W. Eaton wrote
> On 10/6/19 5:39 PM, Pantxo wrote:
> 
> No, we should not need to change that.  Can you give me a recipe for 
> reproducing the crash?

Here is the intensional error I introduced for testing purpose:

diff -r 9e526393d80a libinterp/corefcn/gl2ps-print.cc
--- a/libinterp/corefcn/gl2ps-print.cc  Sun Oct 06 22:25:36 2019 +0200
+++ b/libinterp/corefcn/gl2ps-print.cc  Mon Oct 07 10:09:18 2019 +0200
@@ -131,6 +131,7 @@
 
     void draw_axes (const axes::properties& props)
     {
+      error ("error encountered in the GUI thread");
       // Initialize a sorting tree (viewport) in gl2ps for each axes
       GLint vp[4];
       m_glfcns.glGetIntegerv (GL_VIEWPORT, vp);

Then in Octave:

octave:1> plot (1:10); print /tmp/toto.eps
Input file "/tmp/oct-g6hKlo.eps" is not EPSF.
octave:2> fatal: caught signal Erreur de segmentation -- stopping myself...
Erreur de segmentation

Pantxo




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