Subject: Re: graceful recovery?!?
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jun 04 2000 - 06:46:35 CDT
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> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Jesper Skov wrote:
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> > >>>>> "sam" == sam th <sam@uchicago.edu> writes:
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> > sam> On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Jesper Skov wrote:
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> > >> Just to follow up on this - what should be done? Is there a
> > >> graceful way to exit? The assert is a dead end - I could do this
> > >> instead:
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> > >> if (!pRun) { UT_ASSERT(UT_SHOULD_NOT_HAPPEN) x = 0; y = 0; return
> > >> NULL; }
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How about a "Put the insert point at he beginning of document and
appologize to the user" routine? It appears that the main issue is that
insert point has been lost. If we put the insert point at the start of the
document will things be alright again or have the internal data structures
been hopelessly corrupted? Should we also save the document in a fail-safe
format? rtf? html? Ascii?
Cheers
Martin
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