Home | History | Annotate | Download | only in Support
      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/Support/Compiler.h"
     19 #include <string>
     20 
     21 namespace llvm {
     22 class StringRef;
     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 no error handler is installed the default is to print the error message
     34   /// to stderr, and call exit(1).  If an error handler is installed then it is
     35   /// the handler's responsibility to log the message, it will no longer be
     36   /// printed to stderr.  If the error handler returns, then exit(1) will be
     37   /// called.
     38   ///
     39   /// It is dangerous to naively use an error handler which throws an exception.
     40   /// Even though some applications desire to gracefully recover from arbitrary
     41   /// faults, blindly throwing exceptions through unfamiliar code isn't a way to
     42   /// achieve this.
     43   ///
     44   /// \param user_data - An argument which will be passed to the install error
     45   /// handler.
     46   void install_fatal_error_handler(fatal_error_handler_t handler,
     47                                    void *user_data = nullptr);
     48 
     49   /// Restores default error handling behaviour.
     50   void remove_fatal_error_handler();
     51 
     52   /// ScopedFatalErrorHandler - This is a simple helper class which just
     53   /// calls install_fatal_error_handler in its constructor and
     54   /// remove_fatal_error_handler in its destructor.
     55   struct ScopedFatalErrorHandler {
     56     explicit ScopedFatalErrorHandler(fatal_error_handler_t handler,
     57                                      void *user_data = nullptr) {
     58       install_fatal_error_handler(handler, user_data);
     59     }
     60 
     61     ~ScopedFatalErrorHandler() { remove_fatal_error_handler(); }
     62   };
     63 
     64 /// Reports a serious error, calling any installed error handler. These
     65 /// functions are intended to be used for error conditions which are outside
     66 /// the control of the compiler (I/O errors, invalid user input, etc.)
     67 ///
     68 /// If no error handler is installed the default is to print the message to
     69 /// standard error, followed by a newline.
     70 /// After the error handler is called this function will call exit(1), it
     71 /// does not return.
     72 LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(const char *reason,
     73                                                 bool gen_crash_diag = true);
     74 LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(const std::string &reason,
     75                                                 bool gen_crash_diag = true);
     76 LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(StringRef reason,
     77                                                 bool gen_crash_diag = true);
     78 LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void report_fatal_error(const Twine &reason,
     79                                                 bool gen_crash_diag = true);
     80 
     81 /// Installs a new bad alloc error handler that should be used whenever a
     82 /// bad alloc error, e.g. failing malloc/calloc, is encountered by LLVM.
     83 ///
     84 /// The user can install a bad alloc handler, in order to define the behavior
     85 /// in case of failing allocations, e.g. throwing an exception. Note that this
     86 /// handler must not trigger any additional allocations itself.
     87 ///
     88 /// If no error handler is installed the default is to print the error message
     89 /// to stderr, and call exit(1).  If an error handler is installed then it is
     90 /// the handler's responsibility to log the message, it will no longer be
     91 /// printed to stderr.  If the error handler returns, then exit(1) will be
     92 /// called.
     93 ///
     94 ///
     95 /// \param user_data - An argument which will be passed to the installed error
     96 /// handler.
     97 void install_bad_alloc_error_handler(fatal_error_handler_t handler,
     98                                      void *user_data = nullptr);
     99 
    100 /// Restores default bad alloc error handling behavior.
    101 void remove_bad_alloc_error_handler();
    102 
    103 /// Reports a bad alloc error, calling any user defined bad alloc
    104 /// error handler. In contrast to the generic 'report_fatal_error'
    105 /// functions, this function is expected to return, e.g. the user
    106 /// defined error handler throws an exception.
    107 ///
    108 /// Note: When throwing an exception in the bad alloc handler, make sure that
    109 /// the following unwind succeeds, e.g. do not trigger additional allocations
    110 /// in the unwind chain.
    111 ///
    112 /// If no error handler is installed (default), then a bad_alloc exception
    113 /// is thrown if LLVM is compiled with exception support, otherwise an assertion
    114 /// is called.
    115 void report_bad_alloc_error(const char *Reason, bool GenCrashDiag = true);
    116 
    117 /// This function calls abort(), and prints the optional message to stderr.
    118 /// Use the llvm_unreachable macro (that adds location info), instead of
    119 /// calling this function directly.
    120 LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN void
    121 llvm_unreachable_internal(const char *msg = nullptr, const char *file = nullptr,
    122                           unsigned line = 0);
    123 }
    124 
    125 /// Marks that the current location is not supposed to be reachable.
    126 /// In !NDEBUG builds, prints the message and location info to stderr.
    127 /// In NDEBUG builds, becomes an optimizer hint that the current location
    128 /// is not supposed to be reachable.  On compilers that don't support
    129 /// such hints, prints a reduced message instead.
    130 ///
    131 /// Use this instead of assert(0).  It conveys intent more clearly and
    132 /// allows compilers to omit some unnecessary code.
    133 #ifndef NDEBUG
    134 #define llvm_unreachable(msg) \
    135   ::llvm::llvm_unreachable_internal(msg, __FILE__, __LINE__)
    136 #elif defined(LLVM_BUILTIN_UNREACHABLE)
    137 #define llvm_unreachable(msg) LLVM_BUILTIN_UNREACHABLE
    138 #else
    139 #define llvm_unreachable(msg) ::llvm::llvm_unreachable_internal()
    140 #endif
    141 
    142 #endif
    143