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      1 //===- llvm/Support/ErrorHandling.h - Fatal error handling ------*- C++ -*-===//
      2 //
      3 //                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
      4 //
      5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
      6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
      7 //
      8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
      9 //
     10 // This file defines an API used to indicate fatal error conditions.  Non-fatal
     11 // errors (most of them) should be handled through LLVMContext.
     12 //
     13 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
     14 
     15 #ifndef LLVM_SUPPORT_ERRORHANDLING_H
     16 #define LLVM_SUPPORT_ERRORHANDLING_H
     17 
     18 #include "llvm/ADT/StringRef.h"
     19 #include "llvm/Support/Compiler.h"
     20 #include <string>
     21 
     22 namespace llvm {
     23   class Twine;
     24 
     25   /// An error handler callback.
     26   typedef void (*fatal_error_handler_t)(void *user_data,
     27                                         const std::string& reason,
     28                                         bool gen_crash_diag);
     29 
     30   /// install_fatal_error_handler - Installs a new error handler to be used
     31   /// whenever a serious (non-recoverable) error is encountered by LLVM.
     32   ///
     33   /// If you are using llvm_start_multithreaded, you should register the handler
     34   /// before doing that.
     35   ///
     36   /// If no error handler is installed the default is to print the error message
     37   /// to stderr, and call exit(1).  If an error handler is installed then it is
     38   /// the handler's responsibility to log the message, it will no longer be
     39   /// printed to stderr.  If the error handler returns, then exit(1) will be
     40   /// called.
     41   ///
     42   /// It is dangerous to naively use an error handler which throws an exception.
     43   /// Even though some applications desire to gracefully recover from arbitrary
     44   /// faults, blindly throwing exceptions through unfamiliar code isn't a way to
     45   /// achieve this.
     46   ///
     47   /// \param user_data - An argument which will be passed to the install error
     48   /// handler.
     49   void install_fatal_error_handler(fatal_error_handler_t handler,
     50                                    void *user_data = 0);
     51 
     52   /// Restores default error handling behaviour.
     53   /// This must not be called between llvm_start_multithreaded() and
     54   /// llvm_stop_multithreaded().
     55   void remove_fatal_error_handler();
     56 
     57   /// ScopedFatalErrorHandler - This is a simple helper class which just
     58   /// calls install_fatal_error_handler in its constructor and
     59   /// remove_fatal_error_handler in its destructor.
     60   struct ScopedFatalErrorHandler {
     61     explicit ScopedFatalErrorHandler(fatal_error_handler_t handler,
     62                                      void *user_data = 0) {
     63       install_fatal_error_handler(handler, user_data);
     64     }
     65 
     66     ~ScopedFatalErrorHandler() { remove_fatal_error_handler(); }
     67   };
     68 
     69   /// Reports a serious error, calling any installed error handler. These
     70   /// functions are intended to be used for error conditions which are outside
     71   /// the control of the compiler (I/O errors, invalid user input, etc.)
     72   ///
     73   /// If no error handler is installed the default is to print the message to
     74   /// standard error, followed by a newline.
     75   /// After the error handler is called this function will call exit(1), it
     76   /// does not return.
     77   LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(const char *reason,
     78                                                   bool gen_crash_diag = true);
     79   LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(const std::string &reason,
     80                                                   bool gen_crash_diag = true);
     81   LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(StringRef reason,
     82                                                   bool gen_crash_diag = true);
     83   LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(const Twine &reason,
     84                                                   bool gen_crash_diag = true);
     85 
     86   /// This function calls abort(), and prints the optional message to stderr.
     87   /// Use the llvm_unreachable macro (that adds location info), instead of
     88   /// calling this function directly.
     89   LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void llvm_unreachable_internal(const char *msg=0,
     90                                                          const char *file=0,
     91                                                          unsigned line=0);
     92 }
     93 
     94 /// Marks that the current location is not supposed to be reachable.
     95 /// In !NDEBUG builds, prints the message and location info to stderr.
     96 /// In NDEBUG builds, becomes an optimizer hint that the current location
     97 /// is not supposed to be reachable.  On compilers that don't support
     98 /// such hints, prints a reduced message instead.
     99 ///
    100 /// Use this instead of assert(0).  It conveys intent more clearly and
    101 /// allows compilers to omit some unnecessary code.
    102 #ifndef NDEBUG
    103 #define llvm_unreachable(msg) \
    104   ::llvm::llvm_unreachable_internal(msg, __FILE__, __LINE__)
    105 #elif defined(LLVM_BUILTIN_UNREACHABLE)
    106 #define llvm_unreachable(msg) LLVM_BUILTIN_UNREACHABLE
    107 #else
    108 #define llvm_unreachable(msg) ::llvm::llvm_unreachable_internal()
    109 #endif
    110 
    111 #endif
    112