Re: -gui Uncaught Exception Handler (Was: Getting UTF-8 value of string occasionally fails)

[David Ayers]

stefan@agentfarms.net wrote:

> What about following redefinition of default exception handler dialog:
> 
> [Abort] - same as now
> [Ignore] - log an error and return to the main runloop of the application

This can't be done in the uncaught exception handler.  -gui
(NSApplication) would have to actually handle exceptions to be able to
re-run the runloop.  (Well unless you re-run the +currentRunloop from
within the uncaught exception handler, but that sounds even scarier :-) )

> [Debug]/[Report] - launch GDB that will attach to the current application
> (simple GDB switch with process id from NSProcessInfo), dump stack, write dump
> to some file or pass it to another crash-watching process somehow and then 
> just
> abort. If GDB was running in some predefined terminal application, then keep
> GDB running.

This sounds intriguing but also hard to implement portably.  Feel free
to take a hack at it.

Cheers,
David