Re: [Vxl-maintainers] vul exception mechanism proposal

[Wheeler, F. W (G. Research) <wh...@cr...>]

I don't see any problem with this, especially given the vil precedent.

Fred 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva [mailto:mi...@ie...] 
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:15 PM
> To: vxl maintainers
> Subject: [Vxl-maintainers] vul exception mechanism proposal
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to apply the attached patch to vul. The problem 
> that I'm facing is that when vul_arg is parsing command line 
> options and finds a '-?' (i.e., help option), it displays the 
> help message and bails out with vcl_exit.
> 
> I think it is more appropriate to throw an exception, so that 
> people (such as myself) can use it in an interactive 
> application and handle it as needed.
> 
> I have basically copied Ian's exception mechanism from vil 
> and mul/mbl. I have been careful to ensure that the current 
> behavior for platforms without exception handling support 
> remains the same.
> 
> If this is reasonable, I'll apply the patch and create a unit 
> test as well.
> 
> --Miguel
>