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Error Handling (error)

LEDA tests the preconditions of many (not all!) operations. Preconditions are never tested, if the test takes more than constant time. If the test of a precondition fails an error handling routine is called. It takes an integer error number i and a char* error message string s as arguments. It writes s to the diagnostic output (cerr) and terminates the program abnormally if i != 0. Users can provide their own error handling function handler by calling

set_error_handler(handler).

After this function call handler is used instead of the default error handler. handler must be a function of type void handler(int, char*). The parameters are replaced by the error number and the error message respectively.

Operations

void error_handler(int err_no, const char* msg)

reports error messages by passing err_no and msg to the default error handler.

LedaErrorHandler set_error_handler(void (*err_handler)(int, const char*))

sets the default error handler to function err_handler. Returns a pointer to the previous error handler.

void catch_system_errors(bool b=true)

after a call to this function system errors ( e.g. bus errors and segmentation faults) are handled by LEDA's error handler.

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LEDA research project
1998-10-02

void	error_handler(int err_no, const char* msg)
		reports error messages by passing err_no and msg to the default error handler.
LedaErrorHandler	set_error_handler(void (err_handler)(int, const char))
		sets the default error handler to function err_handler. Returns a pointer to the previous error handler.
void	catch_system_errors(bool b=true)
		after a call to this function system errors ( e.g. bus errors and segmentation faults) are handled by LEDA's error handler.